Questions tagged [boot-to-vhd]
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Windows 7 Install command prompt can't access the C drive
I'm trying to create a new Windows 7 Professional VHD which I can dual boot to, following Scott Hanselman's guide to creating a bootable VHD.
When I get to the command prompt in the Windows 7 installation and try to create a VHD or select/attach a…
tngle
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Does SSD TRIM work with a 'Boot from VHD' scenario?
I have recently purchased an Intel X-25 G2 SSD (160GB) as an extra drive for my laptop.
I created a fixed size disk virtual disk (40GB) and have installed Windows Server 2008 R2 onto this VHD. I now 'boot to VHD'.
(I want multiple development…
user46462
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Boot Ubuntu VHDX alongside Windows 10
I have a Windows 10 installation on my Lenovo T430s laptop. I would like to dual boot into an Ubuntu 14.04 VHDX at startup that was created using Hyper-V (running on the same laptop). The Ubuntu instance runs perfectly if I run it as a VM on Hyper-V…
Nick Heppleston
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Is there a Linux equivalent for VHD from which it can boot?
I have searched for this quite a lot, yet all I could find was VLite. By the way, I'm talking about an equivalent for Windows native VHD boot and not virtualization.
M.U
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Can't boot to a vhd exported from hyper-v
I have a virtual machine running Windows 2008 R2 x64 as guest, and Hyper-V R2 x64 as host.
I have cloned the vhd file of the virtual machine, and now, I want to boot from it directly on my laptop computer, which a Windows 7 Enterprise X64 SP1 (with…
Steve B
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How to upgrade Win 8 to Win 8.1 on a VHD?
I currently have Windows 8 installed on a VHD. When I boot into it and try to upgrade to Windows 8.1 from the store, it downloads and then fails during the installation telling me that "You can't upgrade on a Virtual Drive".
Is it possible to…
row1
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Planning VHD-based laptop install
I am about to take delivery of a new laptop with a 750GB HDD. I will be using Win7 as the base OS (as a "real" installation, direct to the tin). The base install will probably have Visual Studio installed for dev work.
I also want to add 2…
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is there any way to enable hibernation in a Windows 7 boot-to-vhd scenario?
I use win7 boot-to-vhd on my laptop. Even though my laptop will go into sleep mode when I'm not using it, sometimes if I don't pull out the laptop for a day or two, the battery will drain anyways and when I turn it on I get the "Windows did not shut…
kenwarner
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Moving a Windows 10 installation to VHDX file and boot from it
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I have a new ASUS G752VL-DH71 laptop. I would like to make a backup of the current installation of Windows 10 in the form of a virtual hard disk file (VHDX) and I would like to be able to boot into that VHDX file. This is because I plan…
David Grayson
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Can I use the same VHD file to switch back and forth between boot to VHD and a Hyper-V virtual machine?
I'd like to physically install Windows 8.1 Pro and convert my existing physical Windows 7 machine to a VHD as I'd like the convenience of using a Hyper-V virtual machine to access it without having to reboot. But I'd like to retain the option to…
GWB
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Is it possible to copy a bootable VHD between computers?
I have a bootable VHD that I use on my laptop. I recently bought a desktop and would like to use the VHD on the desktop now rather than on the laptop. I copied the VHD to my desktop's hard drive and created the BCD entry. When I boot my computer and…
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How should I get my bootloader working for my Ubuntu, Windows 7 and Windows 8 on VHD?
I have a dual-boot system - 2 partitions - 1 Windows 7 and 1 Ubuntu 11.04 - using the Windows 7 boot-loader, with the Ubuntu boot option added via EasyBCD.
I also installed the Windows 8 preview on a VHD (as of Hanselman's instructions here.)
The…
Nick Meldrum
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Native Boot VHD Error Code: 0xc000000e
I started by creating a VHDX using Hyper-V in an external drive which when I added the VHDX to bcd it boots fine from the external drive but when I wanted to copy the VHDX on my SSD when I attempted to boot I keep getting the message
The application…
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Native-boot VHD deployed operating system does not hibernate
Not several months ago I deployed a native boot VHD running Windows 10 OS, I was not using it a lot, not until now I use it frequently and sometimes I wish to save my current tasks by hibernating the system instead of putting it to sleep or…
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Why does my bootable vhdx windows 10 Enterprise installation report 5.7GB of Hardware Reserved Memory
My laptop has 8GB of memory installed and I'm running windows 10 as my primary operating system. I have also created a bootable Windows 10 Enterprise vhdx using Hyper-V so I have an isolated development environment.
When I boot the vhdx in the host…
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