Problems with booting from a VHD

gencode said:

ALL is 100% fine at this point, I have my primary OS running on a VHD, other than that the HD is empty, no issues at all

On your hard disk you should also have:
file: bootmgr
folder: boot (with file bcd)
file: pagefile.sys
If you don't see them, then enable "show hidden system files"

Both VHDs use the same pagefile.sys. And this pagefile.sys is not IN the VHD.
Sometime I have got problems of booting copied VHD files with an existing pagefile.sys which was used by another VHD before. So I delete pagefile.sys and booting was OK.

gencode said:

so I do
bcdedit /copy {current} /d "Office"
bcdedit /set {CLSID_Number} osdevice vhd=[d:]\office.vhd

Do you forget this?
bcdedit /set {CLSID_Number} device vhd=[d:]\office.vhd

gencode said:

Tried this on 2 different machines, HP and a Toshiba.

Do you have moved the VHD files from one PC to another ? Whilst installing the operating system configures drivers for the first PC. Should not work to copy a VHD file to another PC - or all new drivers must re-install.

Also in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\MountedDevices
you have a "fingerprint" of your first hard drive - should not work on other hard drives.

unawave, thanks for the help, well heres some screenshots
i had already started another test, basically gencodetest is my home and gencodecopy is the office, same thing again, booting to the copy windows loading screen starts and mid way through the machine reboots...the orig one works just fine.

Have you deleted pagefile.sys ? (boot from Linux CD and delete or boot Windows 7 installation DVD, press shift+F10, change to your drive D: and C: and delete pagefile.sys)

On the command prompt screenshot I see this wrong entry:
identifier {a3114298-36d2-11de-8537-94f5553b7e37}
device .... partition=C:

Should named:
device .... vhd=[D:]\gencodecopy.vhd
(same as "osdevice")

Well I tried both of those, but still it did not work.
So I thought maybe something was actually wrong with the file

I remembered when I made the copy I was actually in the VHD that I was copying from.

So I booted from the CD, went to the command prompt, deleted the copy and made a new copy.

Next boot it finally worked, I guess that has been my main issue, thanks for finding the others.

Thanks for all your help, I have learned a lot from this fourm...its all really really appreciated!

Ed,