Hyper v and .vhd backup question

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User3657

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I don't know what happened but my
Vhd got corrupt. I tried doing some research with no luck. It's only my home PC, but lots of important info. My main goal is to get my network backup. I have an old .vhd backup. Can I simply restore that in the current host or should I just create a new host for the backup? My goal is to just get back up, then when I have time try to repair the corrupt vhd or pull data from it if that's even possible?
 

Marsh

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First , make a backup copy of the current corrupted VHD file.
rename the corrupted vhd file, now you have 2 copies of the corrupted VHD file

copy your old vhd file from backup, fix file permission.
Tried to start the vm or the host.

Take the corrupted VHD file , mount the corrupted VHD file , repair it with chkdisk or other utils.
Copy the files that you want off to another disk.
 
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