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Hello Wolfgang,
I have not tried it, but I'm not sure that you could do the same as the tutorial with the Wbadmin command. That command appears to be more for backups.
Virtual Hard Drive VHD File - Create and Start with at Boot
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New #111
Maybe I am wrong. But what I got was a VHD that looked like an image. I think it is mostely used in the Windows Server edition - maybe for scheduled backups or images.
And that's what it says in your Wbadmin link
Enables you to back up and restore your operating system, volumes, files, folders, and applications from a command prompt
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New #112
Yeah, I think that part may be for creating and restoring system images with the command. I didn't see an option to create a bootable VHD to run like a normally installed OS though.
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New #113
Understand - so the difference is in the capability to boot. This was not my focus as I do not have an Ultimate system. I am still working on the restoration of a Wbadmin image.
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New #116
Hi There,
I followed the steps in this tutorial, created the VHD as expandable, but when I select the drive that I want to install, which is the one I have just created, and ignoring the message "Windows cannot be installed to this disk", I got an error saying that there's not enough space ... although I've created an expandable VHD of 80GB ...
When I exit everything and start my regular Win7 Ult N installation I can see the VHD created with a few KBs... but nothing has changed when looking in the bcdedit.
What am I missing?!? Do I need to create the VHD as Fixed rather than Expandable, as I don't have the Virtual PC?!?
Do I need to do it always from the boot, or could I do it directly from the Windows7?
Don't I need to format the VHD that I've just created?!? If so, how to?!
Many Thanks.
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New #117
Hello Dsouza, and welcome to Seven Forums.
How much free space do you have left on the HDD that you created the VHD on? If it's to low, then it may not have enough working space to be able to install to the VHD.
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New #118
Hi Brink, and thanks for your reply, after an extensive search in your web site, I found that some had the same problem that I was having, I solved it yesterday, and didn't save the link. But I have the tutorial that helped me.
My laptop had 3 partitions, one for restore, with around 1.5Gb and loads of free space, the other a System Reserved with 100Mb and only a few Kbs left free and the C with around 232Gb with loads of free memory.
In the topic, someone said that I had to expand the System Reserved by shrinking the C partition to the left, and then add it to the System Reserved... the following tutotial helped me to get my head around it:
Dual Boot : Create Partitions Using PWBD
Once I added more 100Mb to the System Reserved the Windows 7 installation to the VHD worked just fine.
My goal was to install a clean Win7 into a VHD on the top of my existing Win7 Ult ... I will use this VHD as my Dev machine to study and mess around ... it took me a while, but I got it working now, thanks to your forum.
Many Thanks again, Dsouza.
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