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Function name : DetachVirtualDisk

Group: Virtual Hard Disk (Win7) - Library: virtdisk

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Detaches a virtual hard disk (VHD) by locating an appropriate VHD provider to accomplish the operation.

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Declaration:

DWORD DetachVirtualDisk(
	__in  HANDLE VirtualDiskHandle,
	__in  DETACH_VIRTUAL_DISK_FLAG Flags,
	__in  ULONG ProviderSpecificFlags
);  

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FoxPro declaration:

DECLARE LONG DetachVirtualDisk IN virtdisk;
	INTEGER VirtualDiskHandle,;
	INTEGER VirtualDiskFlags,;
	LONG ProviderSpecificFlags  

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Parameters:

VirtualDiskHandle [in] A handle to an open virtual disk, which must have been opened using the VIRTUAL_DISK_ACCESS_DETACH flag.

Flags [in] A valid combination of values of the DETACH_VIRTUAL_DISK_FLAG enumeration.

ProviderSpecificFlags [in] Flags specific to the type of virtual disk being detached. May be zero if none are required.

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Return value:

If the function succeeds, the return value is ERROR_SUCCESS (0).

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Comments:

See also: AttachVirtualDisk, OpenVirtualDisk.

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