Using HyperV to boot Win7 VM on Windows 10

[SparkyNZ]

I have an old HP Z200 that died. I would like to boot up the hard drive from that machine (I don't just want to copy files from it). I have tried booting the drive in a little HP EliteDesk Mini - that got as far as where the Windows 7 boot animation starts and then it rebooted and next boot went to startup recovery. I ran startup recovery but it didn't fix anything. I tried whacking F8 lots of times and attempted Safe Mode boot but that wouldn't boot either.

I read on StackExchange that it's possible to create a VM using the harddrive and boot the virtual machine using HyperV on Windows 10. That does exactly the same thing as the HP EliteDesk Mini did - it goes to the startup recovery.

Is there anyway I can find out what the offending driver is and somehow remove it? I can get Windows 7 drivers for the EliteDesk Mini so I was hoping I'd be able to run this Win7 hard drive on that machine for a short while.

Below is a screenshot from the recovery app - I couldn't get a copy and paste of everything. The VM host wouldn't let me copy and paste text from the VM.

 

[SIW2]

Make Windows 7 bootable after motherboard swap

 

[SparkyNZ]

Make Windows 7 bootable after motherboard swap

Thanks. I'll give that a try tonight - I'll have to burn that image to a USB stick and hope I can get the EliteDesk Mini to boot from it.

 

[SIW2]

It is 32 bit pe so has to be booted in bios mode with secure boot off.

there is a more recent version free paragon rescue kit 14 which has a 64 bit linux iso

 

[SparkyNZ]

It is 32 bit pe so has to be booted in bios mode with secure boot off.

there is a more recent version free paragon rescue kit 14 which has a 64 bit linux iso

Thanks for this - I managed to get my physical Win7 drive to boot to the login screen. Only problem now is that the USB keyboard and mouse aren't being picked up.

With Paragon I just tried the automatic driver detection. Most of the time USB mouse and keyboards tend to be picked up even in safe mode when I've played around so I'm not sure what's happening this time.

Keyboard is fine in the BIOS setup of course. Booting up to Win7 login, the keyboard lights aren't even coming on.

UPDATE: Keyboard has decided to work! Maybe it just took a while for the drivers to update?

But thank you so much - I'm in! I wonder if I can use the Paragon USB stick with the Win10 VM too?