Dentist appt co-pays…
But also the fact that VHDMount will not accept a drive letter with a colon for the drive letter parameter. The X number of years that I have been working on PCs you specify the drive letter as <letter>:, not <letter>.
So this
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Virtual Server\Vhdmount>vhdmount /m e:\vhd\eviltest.vhd f:
Invalid command line parameters.
Command line utility to mount a Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) as a virtual disk device.
<SNIP>
having to be done like
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Virtual Server\Vhdmount>vhdmount /m e:\vhd\eviltest.vhd f
The specified Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) is being plugged in using the default Undo Disk option. Use /c to commit or /d to
discard the changes to the mounted disk.
The Virtual Hard Disk is successfully plugged in as a virtual disk device and the volumes on the disk have been successf
ully mounted.
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Virtual Server\Vhdmount>
annoys me greatly… It is a positional notation parameter string. Look at it and think, oh, they put a colon in, how cute, let’s just ignore it for them because we really know what they mean…
BTW… You like the name of the VHD? There is possibly a future blog post about another possible “solution” to an annoying issue with Windows Server 2008 and newer OSes…
joe
Ack. That definitely goes against the grain. I can see supporting leaving the colon off, but requiring it to not be there? I itch just thinking about it. Thanks for the heads up.