How to get the Physical path of a mounted VHD in Windows Server 2008 R2

Question

I have 2 VHD mounted on my server. I know where one of the actual VHDs is stored. But I have no clue as to where the second one is physically located.

I have googled a lot and did not find any easy method to get this data...

There must be way to find the actual location of a VHD on the local computer or network using the standard Windows GUI, powershell, cmd or Registry.

Does anybody know how to get this value?

Thanks!

@ItaiGanot: Just through Windows Disk Manager. Is that what you mean? It is not connected to or used by a VM. — philips, Sep 04 '14 at 06:32

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 04 '14 at 06:45

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I couldn't find any easy way to do it; even the Disk Management console will not show you the physical path of the VHD when checking its properties.

However, if you select the disk and click on "Detach VHD", you will at last be able to see it:

Detach VHD

answered Sep 04 '14 at 06:45

Massimo

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Thank you! This solution is totally fine and workable in my scenario. – philips Sep 04 '14 at 07:04
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Good job on figuring this out -- although it gave me a big scare having to click on 'deatch VHD' on a volume without intending to do so – gerrytan Feb 02 '15 at 06:26

score 9 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 24 '19 at 07:54

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The diskpart command can show the path of mounted VHDs. Run the following commands in a command prompt or PowerShell.

diskpart
list vdisk

Example output:

   VDisk ###  Disk ###  State                 Type       File
   ---------  --------  --------------------  ---------  ----
   VDisk 0    Disk 2    Attached not open     Expandable  F:\Test.vhd

edited Jan 24 '19 at 07:54

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answered May 13 '16 at 06:28

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Can you add some more details? – Pierre.Vriens May 13 '16 at 08:05
Good option for many disks, such as listing Remote Desktop User Profile Disks. – Jake Edwards Feb 23 '21 at 01:12
This doesn't actually need PowerShell. But PowerShell is definitely better. – Massimo Aug 17 '22 at 21:38

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 20 '20 at 10:24

Old question, but this is possible with PowerShell too:

> Get-Disk | Select-Object FriendlyName,Location

FriendlyName            Location
------------            --------
Msft Virtual Disk       C:\test.vhdx

Tested with PowerShell 5.1 on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016.

How to get the Physical path of a mounted VHD in Windows Server 2008 R2

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