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Asked: 2026-06-11T00:26:55+00:00

I’m trying to add a disk to a Subscription using the Add Disk REST

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I’m trying to add a disk to a Subscription using the Add Disk REST service ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/jj157178.aspx )

I tried pretty much every combination explained but no matter what I do, the disk is listed as a Data Disk.
Trying use fiddler to inspect how the Azure PowerShell (https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/manage/downloads/ ) just results in an error.
According to MS, you should specify HasOperatingSystem but you don’t supply it when using Microsoft’s PScmdlet. If you do a List Disks ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/jj157176 ) it should send this too, but the only way to distinct Data disks from OS disk’s is weather ”OS” is null or contains ”windows”/”Linux”. Given that information I tried creating the disk with/without OS and/or HasOperatingSystem in all combinations, and no matter what I always end up being a Data disk.
Using Microsoft PowerShell CDMLets allow using both HTTP and HTTPS in URI, so tried both of those too.

Does anyone have a WORKING example of the xml to send, to create an OS disk?

<Disk xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/windowsazure">
  <HasOperatingSystem>true</HasOperatingSystem>
  <Label>d2luZ3VuYXY3MDEtbmF2NzAxLTAtMjAxMjA4MjcxNTA5NTU=</Label>
  <MediaLink>http://winguvhd.blob.core.windows.net/nav701/nav701-0-20120827150955_osdisk.vhd</MediaLink>
  <Name>wingunav701-nav701-0-20120827150955</Name>
  <OS>Windows</OS>
</Disk>
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  1. Editorial Team

    As I mentioned in my comment, there is indeed an issue with the documentation.

    Try this as your request payload. This was provided to me by the person from Microsoft who wrote Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets:

    <Disk xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/windowsazure">
  <OS>Windows</OS>
  <Label>mydisk.vhd</Label>
  <MediaLink>https://vmdemostorage.blob.core.windows.net/uploads/mydisk.vhd</MediaLink>
  <Name>mydisk.vhd</Name>
</Disk>

    I just tried using the XML above, and I can see an OS Disk in my subscription.

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