Win7 and boot to VHD

Dai · 17-09-2009, 16:26

This is a guide to setting up a virtual hard drive in Windows 7 (or Windows Server 2008 R2), that lets you create a virtual hard drive that you can treat as a physical drive meaning that you can boot from that virtual drive.

This gives better performace than a running a virtual machine and also means there's no risk of your new installation trashing an existing one.

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/LessVi...BootToVHD.aspx

Graham M · 17-09-2009, 16:41

Looks like you can only run Windows 7 (or Server 2008) off the Virtual Drive though which is a shame

Dai · 17-09-2009, 18:56

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Originally Posted by Graham M

Looks like you can only run Windows 7 (or Server 2008) off the Virtual Drive though which is a shame

It seems there is work in hand to build on this.

http://grandstreamdreams.blogspot.co...-on-vista.html

I guess this is a 'watch this space' sort of thing.