need help removing virtual hard drive


  1. Posts : 17
    windows 7 home premium 64 bit
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    need help removing virtual hard drive


    hi I read a guide on deleting VHDs, i followed the steps until disk management where it said to detach VHD, but the VHD isnt showing up in the disk management.

    what happened was my school installed a windows 7 enterprise on a vhd for all students, when I boot up I choose whether I want to boot my own windows 7 or the one on the VHD. now I dont go to the school anymore so I want to remove it because it takes up quite a lot of space on my computer.

    when I boot into the VHD I can see the drive in disk management however it shows as C drive and has no indication that it is a VHD and cannot be detached.

    how do I remove this stuff? can I just delete the .vhd?

    I'm running windows 7 home premium 64bit, intel corei7
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  2. Posts : 24,479
    Windows 7 Ultimate X64 SP1
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    Welcome to Seven Forums catwomanqt.
    Yes you may delete the .vhd and then Uninstall the virtual machine it used.
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  3. Posts : 17
    windows 7 home premium 64 bit
    Thread Starter
       #3

    thanks, how do I uninstall the virtual machine it used?
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  4. Posts : 24,479
    Windows 7 Ultimate X64 SP1
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    It should be listed in Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Programs and Features. Scroll to it and click on its name, at the top of the window an uninstall link will be available. Click it and follow any instructions.
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  5. whs
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    Are you the admin of the system?
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  6. Posts : 1,800
    Windows 7 Pro x64 SP1
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    catwomanqt said:
    hi I read a guide on deleting VHDs, i followed the steps until disk management where it said to detach VHD, but the VHD isnt showing up in the disk management.

    what happened was my school installed a windows 7 enterprise on a vhd for all students, when I boot up I choose whether I want to boot my own windows 7 or the one on the VHD. now I dont go to the school anymore so I want to remove it because it takes up quite a lot of space on my computer.

    when I boot into the VHD I can see the drive in disk management however it shows as C drive and has no indication that it is a VHD and cannot be detached.

    how do I remove this stuff? can I just delete the .vhd?

    I'm running windows 7 home premium 64bit, intel corei7
    Welcome to the windows 7 forums.

    I recommend that you take a look at this tutorial.

    Virtual Hard Drive VHD File - Create and Start with at Boot

    It has creating and removing options which might help you.

    Rich
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  7. Posts : 24,479
    Windows 7 Ultimate X64 SP1
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    catwomanqt said:
    when I boot into the VHD I can see the drive in disk management however it shows as C drive and has no indication that it is a VHD and cannot be detached.
    This is because it runs on a software virtual machine program and as such isn't a drive. It is simply another program which in this case acts as a separate computer.
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