From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, July 11, 2021 at 7:31:21 AM UTC+10, Joe Monk wrote:   
      
   > > Being compatible with itself is not what I'm after. I'm after   
   > > something Windows 10 natively recognizes.   
      
   > VHDX or ISO.   
      
   Thanks! This was very promising. I ran this command:   
      
   qemu-img dd -O vhdx if=hd2.img of=testq.img   
      
   to convert my 1 GB FAT-16 to vhdx format, but still got the   
   usual complaint about the img file when I tried to mount it.   
      
   Then I tried renaming .img to .vhdx and I got a different   
   error message about needing an uncompressed NTFS   
   directory.   
      
   I did a file, properties, advanced on my "bochs" directory   
   (with the .vhdx in it) and it is not compressed. And the   
   drive, the C drive, is local and NTFS, as per file, properties   
   on the drive.   
      
   According to Wikipedia:   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHD_(file_format)   
      
   VHD can be mounted by Windows 7 (and presumably   
   successors?), but they didn't explicitly mention VHDX.   
      
   Unfortunately qemu-img doesn't support VHD.   
      
   Maybe I need to write my own img to VHD converter.   
      
   But is there light at the end of the tunnel?   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
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