Reading Windows Backup files (VHD/XML)

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Hairyloon

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Posted: Wed Jan 20, 16 12:33 pm Post subject: Reading Windows Backup files (VHD/XML)
I've just found a disk labelled "Windows image backup" which has a couple of large vhd files and a load of .xml files. It is probably all obsolete and can be thrown away, but is there any way to read it other than re-writing the disk image?

dpack

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Posted: Wed Jan 20, 16 5:53 pm Post subject:
you might get date created in properties which can be a bit of a clue as to whether or not it might be useful.

Jb

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Posted: Wed Jan 20, 16 8:32 pm Post subject:
VHD / XML could be virtual machine images. So if you install windows virtual PC you an probably recover it. The VHD file is a disk image (with incremental points so it's not like a ghost image), the XML will describe the disk image.

Hairyloon

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Posted: Wed Jan 20, 16 10:01 pm Post subject:

JB wrote:

VHD / XML could be virtual machine images. So if you install windows virtual PC you an probably recover it...

Thanks. I'll give that a go sometime.

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