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Last edited by Brink; 18 Oct 2012 at 15:51. Reason: added quote
I'm not exactly sure what allows or disallows it, but those are the only two editions that support booting from a VHD.
Thanks for the suggestions, all. I went with primary drives rather than VHD using a free (for home use) disk utility named Minitool Partition Wizard. It was great! It deleted the D drive, unhid the Fat32 restore partition and moved it, increased the C drive to 223GB then recreated a 59.44GB D drive for OS experimentation. It even performed its own reboot to fix the C drive. never seen that before- an amazing disk utility.
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Here is the new disk layout:
Last edited by cyberbiker; 18 Oct 2012 at 20:13. Reason: embedded image
To be able to NATIVE boot from vhd you need :
That's all you need let it boot from vhd.
- have the win7 bootmgr (that can boot from vhd)
- have win7 bcdedit
But if bootmgr loads, the native vhd must know how to access "itself". All win7 versions are capable to do it... it's not a driver issue!
only Windows 7 Enterprise and Windows 7 Ultimate can boot from VHD... all other win7 have blocked it.
Sure vista works as native boot from vhd???? Never tried it
Last edited by Brink; 19 Oct 2012 at 14:28. Reason: updated quote