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The article explictly says R-Studio can "open VHD files as disk images".
What it does not say is it will work 1 time out of 3.
It should work with static VHD, it will not with dynamic and differentials ones.

It's not clear what are you trying to do here.
Denying the evidence?
Upset a customer ...

Actually the article does not says "some VHD formats are not supported".
That's why this post was written

Please update the article or, even better, add support for dynamic VHDs to R-Studio.

Regards,
Corrado

I scanned the file, like in Scenario 2 of the document you pointed out.
If the VHD is already attached (Scenario 1) everything works fine (ie Windows handles the BAT translation).
But R-Studio fails working with a dynamic VHD file directly (I believe because it's not aware of BAT).

Also "raw file ...

After further investigations my findings are R-Studio does not support dynamic (virtual) hard disks.
This is the VHD format used by Windows Server Backup.

Per Microsoft specification these disks have an extra data structure called Blocks Allocation Tables (BAT) used to remap sectors. In example ...

Hi everybody,

seems R-Studio does not handle correctly VHD generated by Windows Server Backup (2008 R2 tried so far).
I tried to recover a damaged VHD, but after getting wierd results I scanned a working one, and found out R-Studio does not handle it neither.
R-Studio does not recognize the virtual ...