Windows 7 Backup Image - Mount to Virtual PC?

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Published on 2010-04-10T13:16:12Z Indexed on 2010/04/10 13:23 UTC
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I took a backup of my PC a while ago, and forgot what was on the backup. I noticed it created a VHD file, but I was wondering if that was safe to run in Virtual PC without corrupting the image to restore to.

Any ideas?

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