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You can mount a VHD in Windows!<br />
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see here<br />
<a href="http://www.7tutorials.com/disk-management-how-mount-and-unmount-vhd-images" rel="ugc">http://www.7tutorials.com/disk-management-how-mount-and-unmount-vhd-images</a><br />
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Once mounted as a NTFS drive letter, you can just browse the drive, and copy what your require.
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You can mount a VHD in Windows!

see here
http://www.7tutorials.com/disk-management-how-mount-and-unmount-vhd-images [http://www.7tutorials.com/disk-management-how-mount-and-unmount-vhd-images]

Once mounted as a NTFS drive letter, you can just browse the drive, and copy what your require.

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thank you Andrew i have already tried this and i get &quot;the chain of virtual hard disks is broken. the system cannot locate the parent virtual hard disk for the differencing disk &quot;&nbsp;and from there i didn't find a solution ...
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thank you Andrew i have already tried this and i get "the chain of virtual hard disks is broken. the system cannot locate the parent virtual hard disk for the differencing disk " and from there i didn't find a solution ...

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This would indicate the VHD is either corrupted, or part of a snapshot set.<br />
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Have you tried booting from the VHD? using Windows 7/8 Boot Loader?
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This would indicate the VHD is either corrupted, or part of a snapshot set.

Have you tried booting from the VHD? using Windows 7/8 Boot Loader?

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i'm afraid i cannot boot the image is on 64 and my pc is 32 ...bits
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i'm afraid i cannot boot the image is on 64 and my pc is 32 ...bits

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Is there any way of decompress / extract a vhd &nbsp;image? I have downloaded a microsoft exam preparation course but i don't want to install windows 2008 i just want to extract course material from the image. thanks
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Is there any way of decompress / extract a vhd  image? I have downloaded a microsoft exam preparation course but i don't want to install windows 2008 i just want to extract course material from the image. thanks

how to extract vhd

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

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.