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Questions tagged [vhdx]

VHDX is the virtual hard disk format introduced with Hyper-V 2012. It is designed to enhance performance and data protections over the earlier VHD format.

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Hyper-V VHDx Compacting & SIzing Issue - No Minimum Size, Unable to Shrink

Trying to recover ~450GB unallocated space from a VHDx total filesize. Thanks for taking a look at this issue: Hyper-V Server 2012. Dynamic VHDx (we'll call it disk2.vhdx) with a file size of 1.5TB out of a maximum 2TB, does not contain Operating…
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bitlocked VHDX security

I have a physical server deployed to a third party. On said server, runs a Windows 2016 Hyper-V VM. The VM's VHDX is encrypted with Bitlocker. The third party has admin access to the physical server, but no access whatsoever to the the VM. The…
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Migrate Windows 7 guest VM to Generation 2?

Yes, I know that officially Hyper-V Gen 2 VMs don't support Windows 7, but maybe there is some workaround or fix? Had anybody such experience? I created new Gen 2 VM, converted my Win7 VHD to VHDx but without a luck. It simply doesn't recognize…
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Better to deduplicate inside VHDX on client or outside VHDX on host?

I have a 16TB array that I'm hosting in a virtual environment. It contains video and photos from our marketing department. The data resides on the Hyper-V host itself as a VHDX file on a 8-drive SATA array. Our file server is virtualized and running…
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Use a shared vhdx as shared drive

I have a Windows Cluster made up of two nodes connected via SAS to a storage array. I have two virtual machines configured with their hard disks (vhdx) on the shared storage. They are up and running correctly. Now I need to build a "shared volume"…
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Can't mount or edit VHDX file, in use

OS is Windows Server 2012 I have a VHDX file that we've been using for backups since Windows won't play nice with our NAS. The first 6 backups worked flawlessly, and they show up in the Windows server backup control panel. However, subsequent…
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Hyper-V Ubuntu vhdx scsi ide

I have a Hyper-v 2nd gen Ubuntu machine (scsi). I did add the vhdx file to a 1st gen (ide) machine (not as start disk, but to try to use some system rescue cd tools to srink the vhdx zerrofill). I didnt have time to do the actions, so I just put the…
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How to reduce a RDS user's vhdx?

In order to reduce RDS user's vhdx (User Profile Disks) size, I wanted to test disk2vhd to rebuild a vhdx from mounted vhdx. But it doesn't work on virtual drive. Optimize-VHD is not suitable for this job because it's not a Hyper-V env. So, is there…
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Why am I unable to edit Hyper-V disks for running VMs when permissions are ok

We have a 4 node Hyper-V cluster running about 15 VMs. On none of them I have tested, can I inspect or edit VHDXs on running VMs. I get a permissions error of some kind when attempting to do so: Given that the VMs are running, the hosts obviously…
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Is it possible to extract / copy the content of a VHDX file

I have recently created a Raspian VM using Hyper-V on Windows 10 so I can start learning the OS as part of a personal project. What I would like to be able to do is take the content of this VM image and drop it onto an SD card, plug it into a…
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Unable to Extend Partition on Hyper-V Generation 2 VM

I'm facing a weird problem with Generation 2 Hyper-V VM, where I'm unable to extend partition in Guest OS. Once I edit the VHDX & Expand it using Hyper-V Manager on the Host OS, and boot into Guest OS, I navigate to Disk Management to extend…
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How do I correctly SysPrep Gen2 Hyper-V image or fix the one I'm working with?

My goal was to create a Win10 image (with programs installed) that I could quickly copy and reuse on Hyper-V for testing things. I created a Gen2 image, installed Win10+apps, then SysPrep'd and shut down. I deleted the checkpoints so everything…
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Can a program detect that the drive it's running on is a locally-mounted but network-stored VHD/VHDX?

This is all in the context of Windows 10, both client and server. Background: Some programs block installation/running on shared network folders. I don't mean errors due to sharing/file permissions or needing to enable policies in GPO/registry; I…
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Command line HDD to VHDX

Is it possible to create a Windows shadow volume copy of an HDD to a VHDX using powershell? I got as far as simply creating an empty VHDX $disk = New-VHD -Path "d:/test.vhdx" -Dynamic -SizeBytes 25GB
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CHKDSK erases VHDX That threw Corrupted/Unreadable Error

A windows 7 Virtual machine instance running on a windows 12 server had a 'blue screen of death' with a REGISTRY_ERROR (Code 51). After several unsuccessful reboots (successfully to safe-mode but could not a safe-mode with networking) a CHKDSK was…
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