{"id":462,"date":"2009-02-18T08:07:39","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T08:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2009\/02\/18\/how-can-i-install-windows-7-or-windows-server-2008-r2-to-a-virtual-hard-disk-vhd-file.aspx"},"modified":"2009-02-18T08:07:39","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T08:07:39","slug":"how-can-i-install-windows-7-or-windows-server-2008-r2-to-a-virtual-hard-disk-vhd-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=462","title":{"rendered":"How can I install Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 to a virtual hard disk (VHD) file?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>A.<\/b> Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 add the ability for an OS to be installed onto a virtual hard disk (VHD) file to boot physical hardware. To do this, perform the following steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Boot from the Windows 7 or Server 2008 R2 media. <\/li>\n<li>Select language options and click Next. <\/li>\n<li>At the Install Now screen, press Shift and F10 simultaneously to open a command prompt window. You&#8217;ll partition the disks and create your VHD file in this window. <\/li>\n<li>Select the disk and wipe all of its existing content using the following commands. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Full Article &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/bink.nu\/news\/how-can-i-install-windows-7-or-windows-server-2008-r2-to-a-virtual-hard-disk-vhd-file.aspx\" href=\"http:\/\/bink.nu\/news\/how-can-i-install-windows-7-or-windows-server-2008-r2-to-a-virtual-hard-disk-vhd-file.aspx\">http:\/\/bink.nu\/news\/how-can-i-install-windows-7-or-windows-server-2008-r2-to-a-virtual-hard-disk-vhd-file.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A. Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 add the ability for an OS to be installed onto a virtual hard disk (VHD) file to boot physical hardware. To do this, perform the following steps: Boot from the Windows 7 or Server 2008 R2 media. Select language options and click Next. At the Install Now screen, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}