Windows 7 Native Boot Hands-on Lab

Chinese Version: http://www.cnblogs.com/WilsonWu/archive/2009/03/02/1401760.html 

Use Windows 7 Beta for long time, Windows 7 really faster and easier than Vista system, some of new features are very good. one of it is Native boot, use it you can run a system in VHD by your local machine instead of VPC, this is very useful for testers deploy system instead of Ghost.

Now start it, follow bellow steps to create a VHD, size between 10G to 15G:

1. Open Computer Management:

2. Choose the Disk Management:

3. And create a VHD file:

4. The size is 10G:

5. For long time to creating, we can see the VHD like below:

 

Now we start install Windows 7 in this VHD, we use VPC 2007 to finish this:

6. At first we need to format the VHD, open the CMD:

7. Type Diskpart in command line:

8. Then type: Select disk 1

Here, my VHD is Disk 1, you can change it as your system.

9. And type: Create partition primary size=10000:

10. Use VPC 2007 install Windows 7:

11. Choose Create a new VPC:

12. Detach the VHD at first:

 

13. Use the excite VHD in VPC:

 

 

14. After create like below:

Then start install the Windows 7, no more info for this, only give you some pictures:

 

When the installation finished, closed the VPC, next is the important:

15. Open CMD as administrator:

16. Type bcdedit to see the Boot Manager:

We can see only one system at here.

16. Reattach the VHD in Disk Management:

17. After attached like below:

18. Then use Diskpart assign a letter for the VHD:

19. Back to cmd and type: bcdboot r:\windows /s c:

20. Reuse the bcdedit command to see the Boot Manager:

 

Now we can see two system, one in C disk, and another in R disk.

Reboot your computer, and run the system in VHD like below:

Finished!

Thanks!