Attach and Detach VHD files from the command line

Very simple and quick way to attach or detach a VHD file on demand, from the command line – use diskpart;

A) Create a diskpart script to attach your VHD;

Enter the following into a new text document (for the sake of argument, let’s call this attach-script.txt)

select vdisk file="your.vhd"
attach vdisk

B) Create a batch file to execute the diskpart script;

Invoke diskpart with the /s parameter as follows in your batch file (again, let’s call this attach.bat)

diskpart /s attach-script.txt

C) Create a diskpart script to detach your VHD;

Should be as follows (calling this detach-script.txt)

select vdisk file=”your.vhd”
attach vdisk

Create a batch file to execute the diskpart script;

As before, call diskpart with /s (detach.bat)

diskpart /s detach-script.txt

And your done…. just execute attach or detach as needed to mount/unmount your vhd file….