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Jake Petroules
Asked: 2011-06-30 14:18:29 +0800 CST

VHD does not automatically reattach on restart

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I have some virtual hard disks mounted on my company's web server, but any time I have to reboot it to install Windows Updates, I have to manually reattach the VHDs. I'm guessing there's no built-in way to tell the OS to persist VHD attachments across reboots, so is there a command line interface I can use to create a batch script that will reattach them on reboot? Or what is the best solution to this issue?

vhd windows-server-2008-r2

3 Answers

  1. diskpart is the command-line interface for managing VHDs (along with many other facets of the Windows disk subsystem).

    For your specific question, put these lines in a file:

    select vdisk file=<full path to VHD>
attach vdisk

    and then run it with type <filename> | diskpart.

    That said, there may well be a way to persist these connections, but I don't know of one.

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  2. maybe diskparts automount enable command.

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  3. Follow the directions here

    Basically you are creating a diskpart script and then linking the script to a scheduled task that runs on system startup.

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