Questions tagged [vhd]
VHD is a file format which represents a "Virtual Hard Disk" drive.
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How to create VHD disk image from a Linux live system?
Once more, I have to resort at the experts here at SuperUser, as my other sources (mainly Google ;-)) didn't prove very helpful...
So basically, I would like to create a VHD image of a physical disk ...
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Powershell Resize-VHD is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet
I'm trying to use Resize-VHD cmdlet, but this results in the following error:
PS> Resize-VHD -Path "C:\Container.vhd" -SizeBytes 20GB
Error:
Resize-VHD : The term 'Resize-VHD' is not ...
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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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Copying a VHD to a physical disk
I've seen a lot of guides on how to do physical -> VHD, but is there any way to easily move a VHD image to a physical disk easily? Or should I just attach the disk and go to town with GNU DD?
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Can I boot Linux from a VHD?
Is there some way to boot a Linux system from a VHD in Windows 7?
If there is a way, how do I put it there in the first place?
EDIT: To clarify, I'm not trying to run Linux in a VM. I'm trying 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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DiskToVhd generated VHD is not bootable
I had windows 10 laptop, I used disk2VHD to convert disk into VHD. Now I am trying to mount it to virtual box on another machine, but it seems be not booting.
I used windows 10 ISO and through CMD I ...
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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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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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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 ...
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Possible to dual boot *and* virtualize same physical drive containing Windows 10?
I use Linux as my daily driver, and have just installed Windows 10 to a new physical disk in my PC for dual booting. For a while, I've used Windows 7 through a VirtualBox image I have mounted over ...
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Is there a tool to convert VHD images to VDI images?
I saw the response for converting VDI images into VHD images, but I want to do the opposite conversion - is there a tool to do this?
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Converting VHD image to RAW format
I need to convert a VHD file (Hyper-V VM) to the Linux raw format. Is there a tool which can do this which is graphical?
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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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How to unmount a VHD via command line in Windows 10
I need to unmount a VHD with a batch script in Windows 10. The only solution I found online was directed at Windows 7 and involved Diskpart. Are there any other native Windows command line tools ...
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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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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, merging snapshots and base disk
I have a virtual machine with about 30 snapshots in branches. The current development path is 22 snapshots plus the base disk. The amount of files is seemingly having an impact now on IO and the dev ...
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Does SSD TRIM work with a 'Boot from VHD' scenario?
I have recently purchased an Intel X-25 G2 SSD (160GB) as an extra drive for my laptop.
I created a fixed size disk virtual disk (40GB) and have installed Windows Server 2008 R2 onto this VHD. I now '...
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How to reclaim the space used by WSL2's ext4.vhdx
After the release of the latest WSL2, I found it doesn't support GPU access, so I uninstalled the Ubuntu Distro and WSL2, but it leaves the following file behind which is over 7GB:
%LocalAppData%\...
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File-based dynamically-allocated hard-disk on Linux
I can create a regular file on an existing file-system (say, ext4), make it into a block device (via losetup), and format it with an ext4 file-system of its own.
But the above hard-disk is of a fixed ...
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Windows 7 Boot to VHD using a VHD clone of the system drive
This seems like a not too difficult problem, and, after several hurdles, I'm maddeningly close. But I can't quite get there.
I'm running Windows 7 in development shop. I want to start using VS2010 to ...
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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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Boot from a VHD created by VirtualBox
I have used VirtualBox to create a VM, and installed the latest Windows 8 Consumer Preview on it.
I have a .VHD file with the OS installed.
I am wondering, since Windows 7 supports boot from a VHD ...
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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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Can I copy from VHD to physical disk to replace my host OS? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Copying a VHD to a physical disk
I am planning to upgrade from a 32 bit os (Vista) to 64 bit (7). As there is no straight upgrade path, and I do not want to spend an entire ...
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“Mouse Not Captured In Remote Desktop Sesion” in Hyper-V
I was used Disk2vhd to convert OS (Windows XP) into vhdx format and use Hyper-V Manager to run it as a virtual machine.
I had inserted integration services already and restart the VM, but "Mouse Not ...
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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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Convert .vhd to .img on windows?
I have a .vhd virtual hard disk. I need to convert it to .img disk image. How can I do it? I have Windows 7 and VirtualBox at my disposal, can those tools help?
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How to Copy .VHD File to Physical Hard Disk Using DD Command
I have read other question/answers on this site that say this is possible, but I'm wondering how it is done. I have tried the following command, which completes successfully, but the NTFS isn't valid ...
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Dual booting from Windows 7 hard disk and a Windows 7 VHD file
I have Windows 7 Enterprise edition installed on my laptop on the real physical hard disk. Now I want to create a vhd partition on the c:\ root directory and be able to dual boot into my real machine ...
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Is it possible/How to boot an XP VHD in Windows 7
In windows 7 it is pretty simple to boot directly to a VHD, given that it also contains (or you are going to install) Windows 7 (or Vista/Server 2008).
This installation is made possible I believe by ...
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Internally mark VHD file as read only so that it will never be mounted with write permissions
I am distributing some VHD files that I would like the receiver to be able to mount and view the contents of, however I would like the checksum of the VHD file to remain the same after the receiver ...
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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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If I have a .vhd file, can it be used by Virtual PC 2007, VirtualBox, and Windows 7's Virtual PC?
If I have a .vhd file, can it be used by Virtual PC 2007, VirtualBox (open source), and Windows 7's Virtual PC (the newest Virtual PC)?
Can you even run Virtual PC 2007 on a .vhd file, and then shut ...
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How should I back-up my data before a windows re-install? Omitted files when copying C drive
I wonder how to make sure I backed up all files before whiping out C and re-install Windows (factory reset).
I have taken best of care to copy my documents, photos etc. to an external drive. However ...
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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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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 can a consistent drive letter be assigned when mounting a VHD?
I have several VHDs residing locally, that I only mount one at a time and assign to one drive letter.
How can the drive letter be automatically assigned to these upon mounting, so that I don't have ...
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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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Copying Windows 7 host to VHD
I've installed Windows 7 Ultimate and it is set to take up the entire drive, I'm also planning on storing the VHD files on this drive. Is there a way I can convert the host Windows 7 to a VHD file ...
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How does one test a Windows Complete PC Backup?
Is there any way to test or verify the state of a Windows Complete PC backup, short of actually restoring it to the same machine?
(At the very least, I want to be able to verify that the file system ...
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Windows 8 freezing on a VHD on a MacBookPro
I've installed Windows 8 on a 2010 MacBook Pro using the Hanselman's method (VHD on native boot). Everything goes fine until it suddenly freezes and I must reboot. I have no log to see and no error to ...
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Can I open a Disk2vhd created VHD file with 7-zip?
I've created a VHD file of my C: drive, for backup purposes, using Disk2vhd 1.0.
When I try opening the file using 7-Zip 4.65 (to view the contents) I get the error: "Can not open the file XXX as an ...
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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:
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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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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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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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Use bootable vhd with Virtualbox
I want to create a bootable Windows 7 vhd using the steps mentioned at:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=80ede31d-3509-407b-a896-0beea8705589&displaylang=en
However, I ...
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