Can I open a Disk2vhd created VHD file with 7-zip?

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I've created a VHD file of my C: drive, for backup purposes, using Disk2vhd 1.0.

When I try opening the file using 7-Zip 4.65 (to view the contents) I get the error: "Can not open the file XXX as an archive".

Does anyone know why this is? I have to assume that either the VHD creation failed and it's a corrupted file, or Disk2vhd creates a variation of the VHD format that 7-Zip doesn't support.

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