I'm working with Hyper-V on a Windows system and have encountered an issue with some .avhdx
files in my C:\Users\Public\Documents\Hyper-V\Virtual hard disks
folder. These files appear to be different disks, but their IDs (the last part of the filename) do not match any of the checkpoint IDs I can retrieve using PowerShell for my virtual machines. Specifically, I'm using the following command to fetch checkpoint IDs:
Get-VMSnapshot -VMName 'VMName' | Select-Object -ExpandProperty ID
Despite this, there are .avhdx
files whose names do not correspond to any of the fetched IDs, suggesting that these files might be orphaned.
I want to find out if there's a way to extract any useful information directly from these .avhdx
files, considering that they don't appear in Hyper-V's current database of checkpoints. I aim to determine if these files still contain valuable data and possibly understand their origin or the context in which they were created.
Any insights on tools or methods to analyze these orphaned .avhdx
files would be greatly appreciated.