Beta2 of SP1 ships with a nifty tool called VHDmount.exe — Which does just that, allows you to mound a VHD and access it as a local drive.

You can copy data into a VHD (and delete it out of) on the fly which is very welcomed functionality — Getting updated copies of SysInternals tools into library VMs is now so much easier.

I haven’t tried mounting a Vista CompletePC backup yet, but it is on my list of things to do.

Anyway, a quick screenshot is below:

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