Something like that would be GREAT! My current VM won't boot, but I'd like to get some important files from the HDD image file that I stupidly haven't backed up recently.
So I have a new working VM running, and the old one that wouldn't boot (BSOD) I have loaded as a second virtual disc. When I boot the new VM, it finds the secondary drive and I now have it available in Windows Explorer. When I go to view the contents, there is nothing available? Where is all the content from the old VM? So C: is the new working WinXP HDD, I now also have E: which is the old WinXP HDD (that I get a BSOD on). It says E: is 7.79GB and there is 1.17GB available. I go to browse E:, and it's just empty, no nothing there.
Just needed to run CHKDSK on the second HDD file and I'm back. Recovered the files I needed from the old unbootable HDD file and I'm a happy camper.