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About Sean O'Farrell

Behind the scenes of this blog is me, Seán O'Farrell. I am the principal Microsoft security architect in eir evo, in Dublin, Ireland. My blog posts are completely my own views & provide no warranty. My blog posts are in no way affiliated with my current employer, Microsoft, Quest or any vendor’s technologies mentioned in my blog. Focused on all Microsoft security products and services specifically Defender * and Purview.

Hyper-V Broken VHD – AVHD Chain

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I have successfully perfected a solution to recover data from AVHD files in a broken snapshot chain even if you do not have the parent vhd or you are missing avhd files.

A quick point to note: NEVER USE HYPER-V SNAPSHOTS IN A PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT. Only use them for testing purposes.
If anyone needs help recovering data from broken snapshot chains they can get in touch with me via sean.ofarrell@ergogroup.ie and we can take it from there.