Windows 7 - Natively Booting from a .VHD file (Virtual PC image)

re: Windows 7 - Natively Booting from a .VHD file (Virtual PC image)

Roel Janssens — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:02:14 GMT

Does this also work when the .vhd file is on an external USB-disk? If so, which path should I use? I tried it last weekend, but it didn't work, maybe I should try it on an internal disk first.

re: Windows 7 - Natively Booting from a .VHD file (Virtual PC image)

oco — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:22:07 GMT

It seems that diskpart do not like vhd file names starting with "windows" if there is already an existing system on the disk, in a windows directory.

Links of the week #68

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Development Change Color of Status Bar of SSMS Query Editor Double-clicking a VS2005 Solution in Vista

Cool posting from Cesar on booting Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 VHDs with the Win7 boot manager

mszCool's thoughts and cents revealed — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:37:32 GMT

Check out here - nothing to add, just that it is a cool blog posting from my architect peer in Spain;)

re: Windows 7 - Natively Booting from a .VHD file (Virtual PC image)

serega — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:24:22 GMT

Is there any way to restore the boot manager back to vista or xp?

re: Windows 7 - Natively Booting from a .VHD file (Virtual PC image)

sphillips — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:39:31 GMT

I also ran into issues using a USB key to do the VHD install. I finally had to use the original DVD that I made the USB key from to install to a VHD.

Different approach needed for x64 version of Windows 7

Helge Klein — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:56:23 GMT

The method presented to bring up a command prompt does not work when trying to install the x64 version of Windows 7 on a partition that contains a 32-bit installation of Vista because in that case the setup program will not allow to repair the installation.

Check out my article on how to work around this:

http://blogs.sepago.de/helge/2009/03/23/eating-microsofts-dog-food-a-self-experiment-with-windows-7-part-2-installation/

re: Windows 7 - Natively Booting from a .VHD file (Virtual PC image)

satorukoshiba — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:55:41 GMT

I confirmed that it went well to native boot Win7.vhd on my Vista note pc.

Thank you for sharing knowledge :-D

Windows 7 RC and support for VHD (including booting from VHD)

Katrien's MSDN Blog — Sun, 17 May 2009 15:48:26 GMT

I’m loving the new Windows version, I’ve been using it on my work and my demo computers since the release

Windows 7 RC and support for VHD (including booting from VHD)

Actualités — Mon, 18 May 2009 12:10:16 GMT

I’m loving the new Windows version, I’ve been using it on my work and my demo computers since the release

re: Windows 7 - Natively Booting from a .VHD file (Virtual PC image)

BGrader — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:29:50 GMT

I am still confused :(

Why do we need to create a VHD of Windows7 when you already have windows 7 installed?

I guess what I am trying to do is achieve dual boot on a single harddrive I have with W2k8 R2 and Win 7 and I have the following questions:

1. Can I have both as a VHDs which gives me an option at boot time which one I want to install? If yes then how do I acheive that? All I have is the iso for both OS.

2. Is there any performance hit if both of the OS boots from the VHD? If yes, then which OS should I keep as native boot? Any preference if any?

re: Windows 7 - Natively Booting from a .VHD file (Virtual PC image)

cesardl — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:17:40 GMT

It is nice to have several Windows 7 to boot from especially when you work with BETAS, as I do usually.

New BETA --> New .VHD starting from a Base Windows 7 .VHD already installed.