VHD is a file format which represents a "Virtual Hard Disk" drive.
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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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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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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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How to make a Windows 7 Bootable VHD?
Is there an easy way to understand how to make a Windows 7 Bootable .VHD? The ones I've found are a little over me.
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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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Disc2vhd and partitioning
I am using Disc2Vhd to make a vhd of my drive. Does the tool support partitions? My partitions of C:\ are listed as both drives and volumes. In short, is there any issue when I select both partitions ...
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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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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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Microsoft 2010 Information Worker Demonstration Virtual Machine on VirtualBox?
Since I'm looking to improve my Sharepoint knowledge, I downloaded the 2010 Information Worker Demonstration and Evaluation Virtual Machine (SP1) from Microsoft
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unable to proceed with dual-boot VHD because windows could not update the computer boot configuration
I've done this before, and everything "just worked" but for some reason setting up a VHD dual boot with Windows 7 this time is stalling.
I create the VHD, no problem
I Install the image form ...
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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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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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Can Windows boot manager remember the last booted OS as default?
Recently, I setup my Win7 notebook vhd dual-boot.
(Copied old Win7 32bit into a vhd disk, repartition and installed new 64bit Win7 into another vhd as new primary system.)
How can I configure bcd to ...
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Mouse not connected in Hyper-V
Took a VS 2005 VHD connected it to Hyper-V, uninstall Virtual Machine Additions and installed Hyper-V Integration Components. Now mouse point shows arrow rather than dot, but you cannot click anywhere ...
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Is it possible to install Windows 7 Professional 64-bit on a virtual disk when starting the setup by booting the installation disc?
I have been reading up on the native virtual hard disk support in Windows 7. The problem is installing Windows 7 on the virtual hard disk. Whenever I boot from the installation disc, follow the usual ...
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Boot to VHD backup plan
I have a machine that I just reinstalled Windows and all of my applications onto... what a chore that is. I want to totally and completely avoid this from now on by creating an image.
My first ...
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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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Restore VHD image in a specific partition
I'm having a similar issue described in this post.
I have a Windows 7 VHD image and want to restore it, but I cannot let Windows Restore format the whole HD and destroy other partitions. I don't want ...
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If you convert a HD to a VHD how do you activate Windows?
I used the HD2VHD (from Sys Internals) wit the HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) enabled.
However, when I try to run it, the Virtual PC guest doesn't have internet access. And when I called Microsoft ...
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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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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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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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Cannot install Windows 8 on VHD
I've been following Scott Hanselman's great article on how to install Win8 to a VHD http://www.hanselman.com/blog/GuideToInstallingAndBootingWindows8DeveloperPreviewOffAVHDVirtualHardDisk.aspx
When I ...
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Hide non VHD partitions
I have two partition on my HDD: C and D. On D: I have a vhd image (with windows 7 ultimate) that I use to boot from.
When I'm running the OS from VHD I can still access my physical parititons. Is it ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Windows 7 Unable to See VHD Backup Image on External Hard Drive
I created a VHD backup image of my C partition some time ago. I copied this VHD file to my USB external hardrive.
I can successfully attach the VHD file on my USB HDD and explore its content.
Now, ...
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Remove unallocated space on VHD
I just moved from XP to Windows 7. I wanted to virtualize my XP machine, so I copied the data to VHD and tried to boot from it. Well my drive was 149gb so I split them into 2 vhd files of their ...
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What does this WinImage Error Mean?
I am using WinImage (version 8.0) on Windows XP SP3 to create a VHD File from my Hard Drive, however, everytime I try to, everytime it says:
"I/O error in reading data on position ...
