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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 Nov 16 2009 at 10:33 PM  by pdespe, version 11
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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 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 :)

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