How to extract text from your VHDX file
- Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your VHDX file.
- You’ll see a preview, if available.
- Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert VHDX to another file type
To convert your VHDX file to another format, you need Microsoft Hyper-V or other Disk Image software.
- VHDX to VMDK
- VHDX to VHD
- VHDX to QCOW2
- VHDX to ISO
- VHDX to WIM
- VHDX to OVA
- VHDX to IMG
- VHDX to DMG
- VHDX to VDI
- VHDX to HDD
- VHDX to QCOW
- VHDX to RAW
Convert a file to VHDX
To convert other file formats to the "Virtualization Disk Image" file type, you need software like Microsoft Hyper-V or a similar tool.
- VFD to VHDX
- DMG to VHDX
- OVA to VHDX
- IMA to VHDX
- VBOX to VHDX
- ADF to VHDX
- PVS to VHDX
- VHD to VHDX
- OVF to VHDX
- ISO to VHDX
- DSK to VHDX
- IMG to VHDX
About VHDX files
The .VHDX (Virtual Hard Disk v2) file is the backbone of modern virtualization on Microsoft platforms, acting as the hard drive for virtual machines running in Microsoft Hyper-V. Introduced with Windows Server 2012, it solved the limitations of the older VHD format by supporting capacities up to 64 TB and protecting against data corruption during power failures. However, this robust format creates significant interoperability headaches. It is strictly tied to the Windows ecosystem; trying to boot a .VHDX directly in VMware Workstation or Oracle VirtualBox often fails without conversion. Furthermore, because these files effectively contain an entire operating system and filesystem, they are massive - often hundreds of gigabytes - making them difficult to share, upload, or backup to non-Windows cloud storage. Users frequently need to convert .VHDX files to VMDK for VMware environments, VDI for VirtualBox, or the legacy VHD format for backward compatibility with older Azure deployments or pre-2012 virtualization tools. For Linux-based KVM virtualization, converting to QCOW2 is the standard workflow.
Convert.Guru analyzes your VHDX file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted VHD, VMDK, IMG, TIBX, RAR, TIB, VDI, ISO, ZIP, MRT, AVHD, VBM and QCOW2 files.
The VHDX Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our VHDX converter.