{"id":26,"date":"2013-04-17T15:59:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T11:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usepowersh3ll.wordpress.com\/?p=26"},"modified":"2013-09-18T12:10:31","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T08:10:31","slug":"convert-a-bunch-of-vhd-files-to-vhdx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/powershell\/convert-a-bunch-of-vhd-files-to-vhdx\/","title":{"rendered":"Convert a bunch of VHD files to VHDX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s how to convert a bunch of VHD files in a directory to VHDX. The actual conversion process uses the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/virtual_pc_guy\/archive\/2012\/10\/03\/using-powershell-to-convert-a-vhd-to-a-vhdx.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Convert-VHD cmdlet<\/a> so you need to be on Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012. <\/p>\n<pre lang=\"powershell\">\r\nPS> Get-Item *.vhd | %{ $vhd = $_.Name; $vhdx = $_.Name.Replace(\"vhd\",\"vhdx\"); Convert-VHD \"$vhd\" \"C:\\Hyper-V\\Virtual Hard Disks$vhdx\" }\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>I am storing all the VHDX files at &#8220;C:\\Hyper-V\\Virtual Hard Disks&#8221; which is why I put the path there. If you&#8217;d rather put the VHDX files in the same location as the VHD files use the following instead:<\/p>\n<pre lang=\"powershell\">\r\nPS> Get-Item *.vhd | %{ $vhd = \"$_\"; $vhdx = $vhd.Replace(\"vhd\",\"vhdx\"); Convert-VHD \"$vhd\" \"$vhdx\" }\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Note to self: If you convert the objects returned by <code>Get-Item<\/code> to string (by doing <code>$_<\/code>) you get the file name with the full path (this is equivalent to <code>$_.FullName<\/code>). If you want just the file name, use <code>$_.Name<\/code>. If you want the file name only, without the extension, use <code>$_.BaseName<\/code>; and if you want the extension only but not the file name use <code>$_.Extension<\/code>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s how to convert a bunch of VHD files in a directory to VHDX. The actual conversion process uses the Convert-VHD cmdlet so you need to be on Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012. PS> Get-Item *.vhd | %{ $vhd = $_.Name; $vhdx = $_.Name.Replace(&#8220;vhd&#8221;,&#8221;vhdx&#8221;); Convert-VHD &#8220;$vhd&#8221; &#8220;C:\\Hyper-V\\Virtual Hard Disks$vhdx&#8221; } I am storing all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/powershell\/convert-a-bunch-of-vhd-files-to-vhdx\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Convert a bunch of VHD files to VHDX<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,22],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}