Questions tagged [vhd]
VHD is a file format which represents a "Virtual Hard Disk" drive.
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BitLocker protected VHD volume corrupted
Due to all the security hype about TrueCrypt I decided to try out VHD + BitLocker to create encrypted containers. This test went OK for a few days. I used this drive just yesterday with no issues.
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Misleading "Couldn't mount file" message after successful mounting of removable Virtual Hard Disk that is part of Storage pool
I use two-way mirror feature of Windows 8 to regularly and transparently backup my important disks on USB drive.
Size of my USB drive is much higher than size of disk to backup, so allocating whole ...
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Can I transfer a Windows installation from one disk to another by simple file copy?
I have a virtual hard drive (.vhd file) with a Windows 8.1 installation, and a physical hard drive with data.
Can I transfer the 8.1 installation from one drive to the other without re-formatting ...
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Trying to auto-mount a VHD from microSD results in Error 0x80004005
I was following the instructions from this question down to the last detail, however on my Surface Pro 3, all I get when looking at Task Scheduling is an unknown error everytime I boot up my Tablet. ...
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Syncing virtual machines - dynamically allocated or fixed allocation VHD?
When you run a virtual machine that you want to periodically sync, is it generally faster to use a dynamically allocated VHD or a fixed allocation VHD?
I'm sure this depends on a lot of factors, ...
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On Macbook Pro, Can I dual OS X, with a windows 7 VHD, with option to open Win7 VHD with as VM once inside OS X?
So Im a Network tech, working mostly in a windows environment. We do some work with OS X/IOS devices, plus all the interconnectability between IOS and OS X devices convinced me to pickup a new MacBook ...
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Does Windows 7 Bitlocker support VHD drives
I'm trying to decide whether to upgrade my Windows 7 installation to either a better version of Windows 7, or to Windows 8. The decision rests on support for a specific feature.
I'm aware that ...
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How do I attach VHD file to Oracle Virtualbox?
Thanks to Update on Azure Storage Service Interruption | Microsoft Azure Blog, my VM's Windows is failed to start and Microsoft suggested me downloading System's .VHD locally for troubleshooting (VM's ...
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Triple-Boot Windows 8.1 (main OS on drive), Windows 10 Preview VHD, and Linux (VHD) - NO CD/DVD/USB
TL;DR Possible to Multi-Boot a main Windows 8.1 installed on drive, Windows 10 Preview VHD, and Linux, preferably retaining the Windows 8.1 graphical Bootloader?
I have Windows 8.1, installed Windows ...
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Is it possible to mount VHD image over smb with ftp backend?
Let's say I mount remote ftp server folder to a local folder using fuse. Then I setup samba and create a share pointing to local ftp folder. Can I place a VHD image on that share and then mount it in ...
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Is it possible to install Windows 10 on VHD with WIMBoot enabled?
I want to install the Windows 10 preview in my machine. I used preview versions of Windows 8, which was installed in VHD. But in my new machine, the SSD storage is limited. I cannot afford a ~20GB VHD ...
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Paragon Backup&Recovery broken incremental backup [closed]
In April I made a full backup of my computer using Paragon Backup&Recovery 2014 Free and in June made a incremental backup using same tool. The problem is I didn't check if the backup is ok, and ...
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How to complete restore using just a VHDX file?
Let me please explain the scenario what I went through.
I have a Transcend SSD which I use to boot my PC which I upgraded from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1.
I have two other hard disk drives (one tera ...
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Formatting HDD containing VHD
I want to format my hard drive however I lack a second or sufficient external storage to backup my important files. Is it possible to create a VHD and then format the physical hard drive without ...
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Create a VHD File From Folders?
I have 100 GB of data that contain a lot of folders and files.
Is there a way to create a VHD file from these folders and files?
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How to convert a VHDX file to VHD?
I made an image with disk2vhd and unfortunately I chose VHDX instead of VHD. I didn't see any information about what to choose.
Anyway, now that file is all I have, the original PC is trashed. So I ...
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Mounting a dynamic VHD on windows 8.1?
Not even sure this is possible- I want to create a dynamic VHD, and then mount it on my win 8.1 machine to copy files onto it. The goal would then be to upload that vhd to the cloud to mount in an ...
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How to re-shrink a bloated vhdx
I created a Virtual Hard Disk which expanded in filesize as I stored more stuff. But it doesn't reduce back in size as I delete stuff from it. As you can see
It only has 10G worth of content on the ...
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Windows 7 system image: Previous increment not visible in Explorer
I tried out the backup tool built into Windows 7 Pro x64. In the help text, it says: "If you're saving your system images on an internal or external drive, or on CDs or DVDs, you can keep several ...
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Virtual box split virtual disk to multiple files larger than 2gb?
I am using virtual box with several large virtual disks of 3TB each. How can i split it to files of 200gb each and still use it as one virtual harddrive? The thing is that i am trying to setup backup ...
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How to make a 3TB virtual drive for virtualbox?
I need to make a large virtual drive for virtual box at 3TB, however, the max size in virtual box appears to be 2TB. How can i make a 3TB virtual disk/drive? thanks.
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Can I resize the VHDX of the running host Windows 8.1 of my system?
I can install Windows 8.1 on a VHDX as primary system, for instance by following the steps at Installing a Fresh Windows OS to a New Bootable VHD with no Host OS for Boot to VHD.
That way, you are ...
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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 ...
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Booting From VHD Windows 7 Stop Error 0x0000007B
I have created a a boot entry with EasyBCD 2.2, and I used a VHD that is on my C: partition. The VHD is Windows 7 Pro x86. Then I went to the edit boot menu to check that it was showing, and I hit ...
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How to get the total allocated size of the files inside a folder on Windows
I have a SMB share in which I keep a bunch of dynamic VHD and QCOW2 images used as volumes for virtual machines. This share is supposed to be used by Hyper-V as well as KVM nodes.
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VirtualBox FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted. after resize
After resizing VHD file with
VBoxManage modifyhd "c:\VMs\WinXP.vhd" --resize 50000
and successful operation I cannot boot from this VHD:
FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted.
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Determine windows server version and service pack from filesystem using a Mac
I have a vhd disk image of a Windows Server which I have managed to mount on my mac using Parallels.
The mounted vhd file contains the c: drive of the windows server.
I'm fairly sure that it was ...
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How do I mount vhd disk to Ubuntu (Hyper-V)?
I use windows server 2008r2 with role Hyper-V. The guest system is Ubuntu 12.04 LTC. It is situated on the dynamic virtual hard disk VHD1.
I add another VHD2 disk as SCSI. Now I want to mount this ...
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In a boot to VHD setup, is it possible to get the filename of the VHD?
I have a physical computer that I have two BCD entries for VHDs to boot from. I am looking for a way to programmatically get the name of the current VHD that has been booted to. I see possible ...
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Which disk image support siplit into files, VDI, VMDK, or VHD?
Different from this quesiton,
What disk image should I use with VirtualBox, VDI, VMDK, VHD or HDD?
Does only vmdk format support 'splitting the storage file into files'? What about other formats?
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Hyper-V, how to share a disk?
I am configuring a new Hyper-V server (2012) with a few virtual machines to run a particular software.
I need to save a huge folder on a shared disk that will be accessed on a “read only” basis; so I ...
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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.
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Hide partition with VHD file during specialize or OOBE pass
I am creating a system based on VHD. The partition is like this:
+----------+-----------+
| VHD file | User Data |
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| SYSTEM |
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Is it possible to boot a Windows VHD using GRUB on a physical machine?
Is it possible to boot Windows from a VHD file which is stored on a Linux partition?
I don't want to run Windows under VirtualBox. Linux is the only OS on the hard drive, and Windows should only ...
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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 ...
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Can native vhd booted Windows see the host filesystem on which the VHD resides?
When using Native VHD boot, can Windows users see/read/write the host's file system on which the VHD resides?
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Dismount a VHDx file mounted in a folder?
On a usb drive, I have a VHDx file (which is bitlocked).
I want to create two scripts to quickly mount and dismount the VHDx file on Windows 8 system.
I want to mount the drive in a subfolder on my ...
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What PowerShell command would you use to create a Hyper-V virtual machine?
I've seen the following question:
What PowerShell command would you use to create a Hyper-V virtual machine?
New-VM -Name "VM Name" -MemoryStartupBytes <memory> -NewVHDSizeBytes <disk ...
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How to mount vhd in Windows Vista?
How do you mount a .vhd file in Windows Vista? In Windows 7 you use disk management but there is no option available for Windows Vista.
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One VHD attached to multiple computers
Is it possible to have one VHD and have multiple computers attach it? I get the error "Cannot attach vhd because another process is using it".
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bcdedit mistake while trying to set up boot to vhd in windows 7. any way to fix this?
so yeah i made a mistake in bcdedit when attempting to set up boot to vhd (which i have done 50 times on this box for temporary SP dev env). This time around after I did my routine and restart.......
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How can I see which edition of windows 8 is installed on a hdd image without starting it?
I have a .vhdx image of a installed Windows 8 and I need to know which edition is installed on that image.
Because I encounter the same issue described in this question: Getting Windows 8 System ...
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Use vhdx backup file as Virtual Machine in Hyper-V
I have a Windows 8 machine which I backed-up using the Control Panel -> Windows 7 File Recovery -> Create System Image. This produces a folder with a lot of .xml and a 2 .vhdx files. Is it possible to ...
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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 [duplicate]
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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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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What is the difference between VHD and virtual disk?
I am studying for MCSA and have got myself so confused. What is the difference if any?
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