VHD booting… Rocks

Today I installed the Windows 7 Beta to test the VHD boot… It is so cool.

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This is a screenshot of a computer dual booting Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 🙂

Here is a description on how to do it.

1. Boot the machine using the Windows 7 DVD
2. Choose Windows Repair
3. start CMD
4. Run Diskpart
5. Type: Create vdisk file=c:Windows7Build7000.vhd maximum=40000
6. Type: select vdisk file=c:Windows7Build7000.vhd
7. Type: attach vdisk
8. Type: ‘exit’
9. Install Windows 7 to the .VHD
10. Reboot

 

Links

http://blogs.msdn.com/cesardelatorre/archive/2009/01/11/windows-7-natively-booting-from-a-vhd-virtual-pc-image-file.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/aviraj/archive/2009/01/17/windows-7-boot-from-vhd-first-impression-part-1.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/aviraj/archive/2009/01/18/windows-7-boot-from-vhd-first-impression-part-2.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/aviraj/archive/2009/01/28/windows-7-boot-from-vhd-first-impression-part-3-booting-vhd-from-vista-sp1-or-later.aspx

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