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I haven't built a machine in probably 15 years because laptops have been enough to function as my primary machine. While this has remained largely true, there are some high-end jobs my laptop just doesn't have the horsepower to drive some workloads that I would like to work with. Example workloads include model training, data... I recently needed to do something a little different with a managed disk attached to my running Azure VM. I wanted to get a disk from the VM as a local VHD file. Here are the steps I used. Deallocate the VM Select the VM in the portal Click the Stop buttonThis deallocates that machine