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Hyper-V manual merge order

Hello experts.

Situation.

I have a hyper V machine with 5 snapshots.

Because I have run out of space on my drive, I have to do a manual merge on a different machine. The machine is actually a production box and I cannot bring it offline for the amount of time that it will take to do the merge. My question is the following.

Lets set I have 5 snapshots in this order

CDRIVE.VHD
CDRIVE1.avhdx
CDRIVE2.avhdx
CDRIVE3.avhdx
CDRIVE4.avhdx
CDRIVE5.avhdx

Can I merge CDRIVE4.avhdx to CDRIVE3.avhdx and continue the merge until I am left only with CDRIVE.VHD and CDRIVE5.avhdx.

and then merge CDRIVE5.avhdx to CDRIVE.VHD?

The reason for this is to minimize the downtime on the box

I am not sure if my question is unclear, if you need further clarification, please let me know
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