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A simple application to automate the preparation process for booting Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 off of USB drives.

The application automates the manual USB creation process detailed on the Microsoft website.


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Last edited Aug 16 2010 at 8:41 PM  by pdespe, version 12
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FlorianS wrote  Dec 2 2009 at 4:55 PM  
Hi,

great little tool!

But I think

"[..] should work everywhere the Windows AIK/OPK does."

is wrong. I tried it on Vista, and it keeps hanging (i am assuming, lack of VHD mount support in the OS out-of-the-box is the reason)

Best Regards

Florian

rbrown wrote  Dec 11 2009 at 2:08 AM  
I tried it on Windows 7 and it hung at "Waiting for VHD to mount".

Pelekan wrote  Dec 21 2009 at 6:07 PM  
For whatever reason this GUI doesn’t work for me (I spend a lot of hours on it.). I tried it on Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2, but always the same result: "Waiting for VHD to mount". So, I decided to build my own automotive process :).... more details here: http://www.itstuff.ca/2009/12/create-bootable-usb-drive-for-hyper-v.html

JamesM wrote  Feb 3 2010 at 7:37 PM  
Create the VHD on a local disk not directly on the USB otherwise you will be waiting hours for imagex to write thousands of small files to the stick. BootFromUSB copies the vhd to the stick which is one big file and will make things a lot quicker :)

TheTony wrote  Apr 9 2010 at 5:16 AM  
Hello! I'm trying to make disk in your tool, but when i' detecting a disk i'll see nothing :-(. Is this normal behaviour?

praethian wrote  Jun 18 2010 at 3:23 PM  
From personal experience with this handy utility,

If it is stuck detecting a disk (the process should take about 10seconds-1minute) then it most likely is not being run as an administrator. Right click on the executable and left click Run as Administrator or change the settings in the executable's Compatibility tab to always run as Administrator.

If it is stuck on "Waiting for VHD to mount" Chances are the path to your INSTALL.WIM file (Sources folder) is not resolvable. Try moving your Sources folder to the root of a drive, i.e. C:\SOURCES. It seems to work fine on Windows 7 32bit. I have not tried with 64bit.

koolin wrote  Aug 13 2010 at 11:22 PM  
Worked like a charm for me, great utility.
Win7 x86, Windows AIK, 8GB USB key, Hyper-V DVD ISO extracted on HDD for install.wim.

JamesB wrote  May 2 2012 at 9:25 PM  
Any chance of getting this to work with Win8 CP? I have tried a few times and it fails to finish and sticks at "waiting to mount VHD" even though it does copy some 7.3GB to the USB drive.

Bertrand wrote  Jun 20 2012 at 9:08 AM  
Hello,
I did the process to build the USB Key. But when I'm trying to boot on it i have "BootMgr is missing".
Any idea ?
Thanks for your help.

jonno232 wrote  Oct 1 2012 at 11:46 AM  
Hi,
Will this work with Hyper-V 2012?

Many Thanks.

dturvey wrote  Mar 7 at 9:56 AM  
Hi,
This tool uses Z: for the usb drive while copying. It will fail if Z: is in use eg mapped network drive. Disconnect anything from Z: before running it to avoid the problem.

HowardLEE wrote  Apr 25 at 9:52 AM  
This tools cannot be run on winxp.
The process to create VHD need diskpart command to create. WinXP's diskpart do not support.

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