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Finding the drive letter of a mounted VHD

Posted by: | September 11, 2012 | 2 Comments |

In Windows 8/2012 you can mount a VHD into the file system. Is there a way to discover the drive letter of the mounted VHD 

function get-mountedvhdDrive {            
$disks = Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_DiskDrive | where Caption -eq "Microsoft Virtual Disk"            
foreach ($disk in $disks){            
 $vols = Get-CimAssociatedInstance -CimInstance $disk -ResultClassName Win32_DiskPartition             
 foreach ($vol in $vols){            
   Get-CimAssociatedInstance -CimInstance $vol -ResultClassName Win32_LogicalDisk |            
   where VolumeName -ne 'System Reserved'            
 }            
}            
}

Use Get-CimInstance to get the Win32_DiskDrive class. Filter on caption equalling "Microsoft Virtual Disk"

for each “physical” disk returned get the associated Win32_Volume and use that to get the associated Win32_Logical disk where you will find the drive letter.

Nice example of using associations in the CIM cmdlets

under: Hyper-V, PowerShell and WMI, PowerShell V3, Windows Server 2012
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2 Comments

  1. By: Adam on September 13, 2013 at 12:32 am      

    An easier command is: (Mount-VHD –Path c:\test\testvhdx –PassThru | Get-Disk | Get-Partition | Get-Volume).DriveLetter

  2. By: RichardSiddaway on September 13, 2013 at 12:55 pm      

    Mount-VHD is only available in the Hyper-V module. You can mount a vhd from file explorer in Windows 12/8 so my approach was designed to be generic and not assume the presence of the Hyper-V module.

    It was also a good demonstration of CIM class associations