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Ender S.
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VHD mounting

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Howdy, I'll keep this short, sweet, and straight to the point!

I would like Virtual Hard Disk mounting re-implemented, it helped me out a lot in the long-run with Windows VMs, saved a lot of headaches, and was made of pure awesome, but now with 5.1.26, it's gone! The codec for mounting VHDs, completely re-written, gone, it'd be amazing if it were added back, or if there was a way to open VHDs again.

Thanks!

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I know Windows 7 & up can mount VHDs natively, without Virtualbox. Where does Virtualbox allow you to mount a VHD?
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Ender S. wrote:I would like Virtual Hard Disk mounting re-implementer
Does not Virtual Disk Mounting tools answer this ?
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scottgus1 wrote:I know Windows 7 & up can mount VHDs natively, without Virtualbox. Where does Virtualbox allow you to mount a VHD?
It used to let me mount .vhd files as external drives before the most recent update, but now it's asking me which app I want to use to open it
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@Chipmck

No, my computer runs Win10
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Ender S. wrote:No, my computer runs Win10
ImDisk Toolkit
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Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 or 10 (32 or 64-bit).


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Ender S. wrote:but now it's asking me which app I want to use to open it
That's normal Win10 behaviour. If it has more than one registered app capable of handling a file format (e.g. your VHD image mounter and VirtualBox both accept VHD), it'll ask you to confirm which one you want to use. Normally it's only one reconfirm after each Win10 major update.

To be clear: VirtualBox has never given you any tool to mount disk images outside of VirtualBox.
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Ender, in a Windows 10 PC here that has never had Virtualbox on it, right-clicking on a VHD has the Mount option as the bold choice at the top of the pop-up menu.
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scottgus1 wrote:Ender, in a Windows 10 PC here that has never had Virtualbox on it, right-clicking on a VHD has the Mount option as the bold choice at the top of the pop-up menu.
Correct
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mpack wrote:
Ender S. wrote:but now it's asking me which app I want to use to open it
That's normal Win10 behaviour. If it has more than one registered app capable of handling a file format (e.g. your VHD image mounter and VirtualBox both accept VHD), it'll ask you to confirm which one you want to use. Normally it's only one reconfirm after each Win10 major update.

To be clear: VirtualBox has never given you any tool to mount disk images outside of VirtualBox.
Huh, strange, because I remember that Explorer would just mount it, but I guess VBox caught up!
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Ender S. wrote: Huh, strange, because I remember that Explorer would just mount it, but I guess VBox caught up!
Caught up with what? VirtualBox is a VM platform. It is not a tool for mounting VHDs as host anythings.
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Update that rendered VHDs unmountable, dunno what's up with that! Never did that before! *shrugs* Eh, maybe I'm just missing something!
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Ender S. wrote:Update that rendered VHDs unmountable, dunno what's up with that! Never did that before! *shrugs* Eh, maybe I'm just missing something!
Perhaps you are missing what has already been written, about normal Windows 10 behaviour.
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