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Now that was easy, just tried that on another server. &nbsp;Can I just copy the VHD file and then mount it that way on another server w/o any concerns about hardware, etc?
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Now that was easy, just tried that on another server.  Can I just copy the VHD file and then mount it that way on another server w/o any concerns about hardware, etc?

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Have a VHD that was running Windows 2008, but cannot login because of a probable virus attack. &nbsp;Trying to find a way to recover some of the data and do not want to start the VM on the server for fear of the virus. &nbsp;Was hoping to dump the contents to a physical drive like a USB drive, but doesn't appear that is possible?<br />
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Have another Hyper-V server that I can try to copy the VHD to and try to work with it that way. &nbsp;Should I attempt an export or can I just copy the VHD file? &nbsp; Both are Dell PE R710 server, are there considerations besides similar hardware? &nbsp;<br />
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Thanks
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Have a VHD that was running Windows 2008, but cannot login because of a probable virus attack.  Trying to find a way to recover some of the data and do not want to start the VM on the server for fear of the virus.  Was hoping to dump the contents to a physical drive like a USB drive, but doesn't appear that is possible?

Have another Hyper-V server that I can try to copy the VHD to and try to work with it that way.  Should I attempt an export or can I just copy the VHD file?   Both are Dell PE R710 server, are there considerations besides similar hardware?  

Thanks

Accessing the contents of a VHD on another computer

Microsoft Virtual Server was a virtualization solution that facilitated the creation of virtual machines on the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Virtual machines are created and managed through a web-based interface that relies on Internet Information Services (IIS) or through a Windows client application tool called VMRCplus. Features included Linux guest operating system support, Virtual Disk Precompactor, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), x64 host operating system support, the ability to mount virtual hard drives on the host machine and additional operating systems support, including Windows Vista, and a volume shadow copy writer.

Microsoft Virtual Server

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.

Windows Server 2008

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