VHD is a file format which represents a "Virtual Hard Disk" drive.
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Multiple VM's one VHD
Is there a way to mount one VHD (or other disk image alike) between multiple Virtual Machines. I don't mean OS Image, just like a shared disk drive. I know I can have a file-server smb like share. ...
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Resize VHD for use in VPC
Created a VHD from a machine using disk2vhd.
File created is 61GB, partition on the VHD is set to 149GB.
Virtual PC won't let me use the VHD (as the partition is too large, has to be below 127GB).
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How do I use this IE10 Virtual Machine?
I downloaded this IE10 virtual machine for windows 7 and I have managed to mount the VHD, but how do I actually get it to start? Do I need to also install virtual PC or some other software or ...
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Encrypt a virtual hard disk on Windows 7 Home Premium?
I have a virtual hard disk file (*.VHD) and as Windows 7 Home Premium user, I don't have BitLocker to encrypt this hard disk. So is there any alternative way for me to do so?
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normal OS boot and virtual boot in windows as vhd
Is it possible to install e.g. ubuntu on a vhd in virtualbox and boot it normally at the pc start or start it as a virtual machine in Windows 8 or Win7?
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Is it good practice to have a vhd inside a vhd?
I have a virtual machine running windows server 2008 x64 r2 and I have attached a vhd as local hdd for full backup of the machine.
The vhd is located on a network file share hosted on another ...
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where do VHD file get there space from?
I have just created a VHD on windows server 2012 fixed space of 1GB but I am really confused to how it gets the space? Where does the 1GB come from? If I were to move the VHD to another virtual ...
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Location of an extended partiton in a physical disk?
I am trying to copy a physical disk to a VHD file. It works fine when OS is on primary partition but when I try to copy OS which is on extended partition the VHD wont boot. The scenario is Boot files ...
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Boot to VHD, Moving Child disks between parents
Trying to find the answer to this scenario...
Have two physical machines that are configured with boot to vhd and they both have differencing disks. The system OS, drivers and base software is ...
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Is it possible to mount Windows Azure VHD disk to my local machine
I have a storage account on windows azure and I need to use one of my cloud VHD disk on my local machine. I know that it is possible to download whole image but I have no need of this. I am planing to ...
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How to repair Windows 7 boot loader on UEFI system? [duplicate]
On a Windows 7 Home Premium PC, I tried creating a Windows 8 VHD and booting to it. I created a VHD as my E: drive, installed Win8 into it with imagex, and then ran bcdboot E:\Windows. I've done ...
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Hyper-V featuers missing, moving from virtual pc
I use an instance of xp in virtual pc for some development tasks (old vb6 stuff etc).
Now I'm in win 8 and setup hyper-v for this, and booted up my old vhd's in it.
I've noticed right off that ...
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Mount a VHD (VirtualBox) in OSX
How can I mount a VHD (created in VirtualBox) of a Ubuntu Server install on my Max OSX (Mountain Lion) and allow it to be found in Finder (so I can select a folder and view it's contents).
If it ...
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Impossible to read a VHD file
I've been given a job: open a XXXX.vhd file and extract datas from an SQL folder.
The problem is that I've tried this:
install "WMWare" then open it. "File unknown" as a result.
install "Oracle VM ...
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Move Vista VHD on network to SSD w/out connecting multiple drives
Alright, I have what seems at first glance to be a simple task, but isn't quite (read the title).
So I have a laptop with Vista 32 on it, and I want to transfer it to an Intel SSD I bought. I used ...
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Is Microsoft's HyperV VHD file just the image of the hard disk?
I would like to know if the Microsoft HyperV VHD file is just an image of the hard disk.
I have a VHD file, and I'm wondering if it contains the entire image of the VM environment. In other words, if ...
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Adding Windows 7 VHD back to multiboot in Windows 8
I have currently installed Windows 8 Pro with WMC on my laptop.
This laptop came with Windows 7, here were some stock apps installed by HP that I want to run now, unfortunately, HP has not yet ...
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How do I get Windows 8 to mount a VHD at startup?
I have a VHD with a database on it, which I have attached to the database server, which wreaks havoc on the database server after a reboot and the VHD is no-longer mounted.
My searching for this has ...
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How to quickly find out supporting file of a VHD disk (Windows 7)
I have some VHD virtual disks attached to my Windows 7 OS, but I somehow forget what the supporting .vhd file is for one of the disks. How do I quickly find out?
That is, I need a quick way to know ...
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BSOD when upgrading VHD RAM
I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 with native boot inside a VHD. It was running fine with 2 GB of RAM, and I tried to upgrade it to 6 GB. This caused a BSOD, and I haven't been able to fix in unless I ...
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Can't use VHD in a particular machine
(All the machines referred below have Windows 7 Professional.)
I have a virtual machine targetted for Virtual PC. I'm able to use that disk in two different machines (32 bit and 64 bit, ...
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Mount VHD at Boot in Windows Server 2008 R2
I need a way to attach a VHD at boot in Windows Server 2008 R2. I tried to accomplish this task by creating a diskpart script that attached the vdisk at boot, which would work if it were not for the ...
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Is possible to share programs between Windows 8 on a VHD and Windows 7 on a physical disk?
I have a lot of programs installed on Windows 7 that I need on my Windows 8 (runs on a VHD). Do I need to duplicate all these installations or is there some tool that can update the Windows 8 system ...
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Getting Windows 8 System Image Recovery to recognize my backup
I have a bad feeling about Windows 8 backup already. I sure hope I'm just being plain dumb and somebody can enlighten me.
Short story: Windows 8 System Image Recovery does not find my system image. I ...
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Determine VHD filename working backwards from drive number/letters (Win8/Server2012)
If I have a VHD mounted in Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 (not as a boot volume, just as a data drive), is there a way to work backwards from the disk number or drive letters to the VHD filename? I ...
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Create VHD from C drive (Windows 7) to boot from using Hyper-V
Is it possible to create a VHD from the C drive running Windows 7 and then boot from the VHD using Hyper-V?
I have tried this using Dish2vhd by Sysinternals, but when I try to boot from the VHD in ...
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Install windows 8 via VHD from windows 7 bootcamp on Macbook
I know this is crazy, so hear it out.
I am interested in installing windows 8 on my Macbook. I already have windows 7 installed via bootcamp from Mountain Lion. Has anyone successfully installed ...
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Compact a VHD file created by Disk Management?
My computer is running on Windows 7 64-bit. I used Disk Management to create a new VHD file and made it into a new virtual drive. The size of the disk is 8GB. After using about 3GB, I decided to ...
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VirtualBox FATAL: INT18: BOOT FAILURE
I have just took a back up of my windows PC, in the backup folder I can see a VHD file, I thought to run this with VirtualBox, but I the boot failure message. I suspect there is not boot information ...
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How would I do a VHD install of Windows 8 from Windows 7
I'm currently waiting on my shiny new system to run Windows 8 on. I have an older system that has Windows 7 installed now on which I'd like to try Windows 8 on in the meanwhile. I intend to use the ...
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Virtual PC 64-bit ntoskrnl.exe
I had a 32-bit windows 7 box running Virtual PC, with a Windows 2003 guest. It performed flawlessly.
I recently put in a 64-bit Windows 7 box. I installed 64-bit Virtual PC. I copied the VHD file ...
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How can I test a restore from a Windows 7 backup?
I've set up backups for my PC using Windows 7's built in scheduled backup feature that backs up to a NAS I purchased. All seems to be going well but I can't sleep well until I'm sure my backups will ...
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Can disk space be in negative? VHD
I have setup many VHD boot on my Windows 7 machine. Each of the VHD is 60GB Expandable (current size ~20GB), When I boot into the VHD, the file on the disk expands and shows up the size of VHD to be ...
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Windows 8 VHD on Mac
I am trying to create a VHD of windows 8 on my macbook pro. I started by following this Hansellman aticle.
However, I found the following FAQ on another Hansellman post:
Can I do this on a Mac?
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How can I attach a large virtual disk to a VPC? [closed]
I have just created a virtual disk clone of my dev machine, into say clone.vhd, but this file is 270GB large. Virtual PC won't let me create a new VM using this file, and I have been told it is ...
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System Center 2012 - Can't Install Virtual Machine Manager
Here is my setup:
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Enterprise (updated to SP2)
32GB RAM
x2 Quad Core Xeon 5500 Series Processors (16 cores total)
x3 120GB Intel SSDs
Computer is joined to a ...
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Shrink MS virtual pc VHD file in place
I need to shrink a VHD in place because almost all my system's free disk space is trapped in the unused part of the VHD. I can't use any of these methods because they all involve creating a new VHD ...
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Windows virtual machine: .vhd file unwanted
In order to run a certain "visual studio" compiler interface, I have to use a windows XP virtual machine; very well. When it comes time to perform a backup of the files on the computer, I am plagued ...
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Backup/Convert existing Windows Server 2003 install to VHD for use in Hyper-V
So I have a dev server running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 32 Bit SP2 R2.
Here are the system specs
Motherboard Intel S5520HC
CPU x2 Intel Xeon L5520 (Quad Core @ 2.27 GHz per core, 16 ...
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Can't attach VHD
I think I may be experiencing that horrible moment when the backup fails. Somewhere hiding on this VHD is an SQL database I need to extract. This is from a Windows backup, not a virtual machine. I'm ...
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How do I convert an .img file to vhd?
I have an image file (linux based image) and want to convert it to VHD so that it can be used to create hyper-V VMs.
I used "qemu-img convert" to convert raw to vpc format, but vpc doesnt work for ...
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Install Windows 7 onto bootcamp partition from VHD image
This question has been asked once before but afaik no definitive answer has been forthcoming.
Basically I have a .vhd image that was created using windows7 tools from an existing bootcamp partition. I ...
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Windows 7 Recovery Media to HDD without re-partition and Extraction
I want to Restore Windows 7 to HDD without re-partitioning the Hard-Drive. I have a HP Dv6 6115tx laptop. I have upgraded it to 8GB ram and Windows 7 Ultimate (anytime-upgrade). When I restore my ...
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An initialization failure occurred while attempting to boot from a VHD
I am creating system image of my windows from Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Backup and Restore
This is creating VHD. That's ok, but I noticed that the VHD created is of dynamic type. I want ...
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“next” button disabled on Windows 7 installation
I am trying to install Windows in my virtual hard disk. I have created a VHD, attached it. But when I install Windows 7 on that disk it is giving me the following error:
The "next" button is ...
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How do I install Windows on a virtual hard disk (VHD) from within a running Windows system?
If you just try to attach a VHD and then install Windows to a partition inside it, it will tell you that it's a "surfaced virtual disk" and that Windows cannot be installed to that partition.
But ...
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what the difference booting native or from vhd [closed]
Is there a difference between
Booting windows7 Direct native from a vhd
boot windows 7 from yet an other atatched VHD using easybcd
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How to reduce space of vhd-file
There is Host
There is Guest
Guest's hdd is Dynamically expanding virtual hard disk.
Size: 52Gb
Maximum size: 201 Gb
Real size from guest after Convert from Basic to Dynamic type and Shrinking:
100Mb ...
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Evidently I've lost my HAL… - Can't start up VM - HAL.dll missing
I recently went and dug out one of my old HDs (the PC it was mounted in is no longer in existence...) I mounted it in my PC and used DVD2VHD to convert the whole drive to a VHD. It's an old XP drive ...
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Cannot boot after vhd hard drive is resized in VirtualBox
In Windows 7, I set up another Windows 7 VM in VirtualBox. It worked great. Then, I needed to increase the vhd HD size. So, I used VBoxManage utility to do that with the following comment:
VBoxManage ...
