Unit 7 M3

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The following procedures describe how to add a native-boot virtual hard disk (VHD) to the boot menu using the BCDedit tool. If you are adding the VHD to a computer that already has a Windows® 7 installation, you will need to add a boot entry to the menu. If you are adding the VHD to a computer running an older version of Windows, for example Windows Server® 2008, you will need to update the system partition using the BCDboot tool and then edit the boot menu using the BCDedit tool. To update a BIOS-based computer to include a Windows 7 boot menu If you are deploying the VHD to a BIOS-based computer without a Windows 7 boot menu, for example, a computer using Windows Server 2008 as the running operating system, you will need to update the…show more content…
You can attach a VHD by using the Attach vdisk command. This activates the VHD so that it appears on the host as a disk drive rather than as a .vhd file. At a command prompt, type: Copy diskpart select vdisk file=c:\windows7.vhd attach vdisk list volumeselect volume assign letter=v exit Use the BCDboot tool, located in the \System32 directory of the VHD image or in Windows PE to copy the boot environment files and Boot Configuration Data (BCD) configuration from the \Windows directory in the VHD to the system partition. On a computer with BIOS firmware, the system partition is the active partition of the first hard disk. For example, to use BCDboot from the VHD image, at a command prompt, type: Copy cd v:\windows\system32 bcdboot v:\windows The BCDboot tool automatically imports information from the existing installation when updating the BCD. The computer is now updated to include a Windows 7 boot environment. You can now follow the steps in the section "To add a native-boot VHD to an existing Windows 7 boot menu" later in this topic. To update a UEFI-based computer to include a Windows 7 boot…show more content…
Copy the .vhd file to the destination computer. For example, at a command prompt, type: Copy copy N:\VHDs\windows7.vhd C: Use the DiskPart tool in Windows PE to attach the VHD on the destination computer. You can attach a VHD by using the Attach vdisk command. This activates the VHD so that it appears on the host as a disk drive rather than as a .vhd file. At a command prompt, type: Copy diskpart select vdisk file=C:\windows7.vhd attach vdisklist volumeselect

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