Auto-Mount VHD or VHDX File at Startup in Windows 10

tfwul · 26 Dec 2023

Thanks. Actually, this is/was the thing I wasn't sure of (I mean: dismounting at shutdown).

Background of my question: there is something like 'ejecting' a drive (right click an encrypted drive, eject)
and I wasn't 100% sure whether 'unmounting' and 'ejecting' were exactly same.

3rd party encryption tools (VeraCrypt, AXCrypt, BestCrypt...) highly recommend closing their 'encrypted containers' first.
In exceptional cases this may not be possible, like power-outage, or having no alternative but to shut down the 'hard way, of a freezing system, but otherwise closing a container seems to be a 'must'.

Anyway, the 'dismount' page (2nd URL in your post above), under "1."
Powershell: "Dismount-DiskImage -ImagePath..."
says
"This example ejects an ISO named ..."blah blah

Hence they are the same, matter solved ....

Thanks again.

Brink · 26 Dec 2023

tfwul said:

Thanks. Actually, this is/was the thing I wasn't sure of (I mean: dismounting at shutdown).

Background of my question: there is something like 'ejecting' a drive (right click an encrypted drive, eject)
and I wasn't 100% sure whether 'unmounting' and 'ejecting' were exactly same.

3rd party encryption tools (VeraCrypt, AXCrypt, BestCrypt...) highly recommend closing their 'encrypted containers' first.
In exceptional cases this may not be possible, like power-outage, or having no alternative but to shut down the 'hard way, of a freezing system, but otherwise closing a container seems to be a 'must'.

Anyway, the 'dismount' page (2nd URL in your post above), under "1."
Powershell: "Dismount-DiskImage -ImagePath..."
says
"This example ejects an ISO named ..."blah blah

Hence they are the same, matter solved ....

Thanks again.

Yep, all different ways of doing the same.