What if I have a windows 7 Home Premium but I use EasyBCD to boot into VHD?While all Windows 7 editions can create and attach a VHD, only the Windows 7 Ultimate and Enterprise editions support booting from a VHD.
Is it going to work?
Hello ShellExecutor, and welcome to Seven Forums.
Sorry, but no. Only the Windows 7 Ultimate and Enterprise editions support booting from a VHD.
Hi guys,
I'm running Windows 7 (native VHD) Ultimate x64 on Dell l502x (currently 1 internal drive)
It looks like the MS VHD HBA (Storage Controller) and the HD - ST9750420AS ATA Device (Disk Drive) use the same driver, but the version# is the OS version...
IS THIS NORMAL?
Attempts to update the driver fail (not sure if it's cause the drive is in use, being natively virtualised, or if it's the wrong one...)
Is there a way of updating this driver?
Thanks
Hi,
i have used VirtualBox to install Windows 7 Ultimate on VHD, then i have created Boot menu with EasyBCD.
So i have Copied \boot folder and bootmgr and Windows7.vhd on a new PC with a formatted NTFS harddisk
Then i make it bootable with Bootsect /nt60 i.e C:
Voilą !! A virtualized Windows7 Ultimate on a cleaned and real PC.:)
PRO
I have a small footprint of Bootmanager
Backup is copy VHD on another Disk
if some goes wrong i can restore /copy the VHD back.
All is inside a fixed/dinamic VHD
I can access my data on real partition NTFS
i Can create/attach another VHD for data
CONS
i cannot easily change the size of VHD
If i want change the pc which is hosting my VHD , i have to reset HAL layer inside VHD to get new hardware updated.
Cheers
PippoX0
Last edited by pippox0; 15 Mar 2017 at 00:46.
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