Extract vhd / disk from image?

Is there a way to extract the os / data disks from an azure image so it can be mounted as regular disks on another azure vm?
For example, I capture an image of a vm. Later, I want to extract an earlier version of a file that exists on a disk in that image. Right now, I would create a new vm from that image, detach the data disk, delete the new vm, attach the data disk to another
vm, and finally access the file. Is there a way to re-create the disks stored in the image without going through the vm-creation bit?
As mentioned above, for data disks, I can detach it from a vm and attach it to another vm. But is there a way to do the same with the os disk? When I delete a vm and tell it to keep the attached disk, it doesn't seem to apply for the os disk. Or at least
I don't know where to look for it. For example, I take an image of a vm. Later the vm no longer boots. Instead of deleting the vm and creating a new vm from image, a less drastic approach is to shutdown the vm, detach the os disk, attach the os disk from
the image, and try booting the vm. Is this possible? I would normally do this on a <cough> competitor's cloud service.

It looks like every time I capture an image of a vm, a snapshot is taken of each disk and then a vhd object is also created. So can I convert the vhd's to a disk without going through the create-a-vm-from-image process? Going even further, if I just took
snapshots of my vm's, can I turn those snapshots directly into disks?

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