VHD installation WINDOWS8 system graphics and text tutorial

ImageX is a command-line tool that allows you to create, modify, and deploy images using shared image formats in the operating system image. The VHD is a Microsoft Virtual disk file, Win7 (Professional Edition above) and WIN8 native support boot from the VHD. Using these two technologies to achieve Win7, WIN8 dual systems, a happy experience of the win8. The advantage is that you do not have to take a separate partition to install WIN8, easy to uninstall (needless to toss hard disk partitions, uninstall WIN8 partition merge back trouble), no impact on the original system, and the real machine installed almost no difference in performance experience. The disadvantage is that you cannot hibernate, you cannot complete the system score, only for Windows 7,8,windows Server 20008 R2,WINPE 3.0 system operations.

The following is a simple and practical tutorial, like tossing friends follow the steps to implement the VHD installation Win8, the following reference to the letter please change according to their actual situation, special thanks to the Vision Forum.

Download: Imagex 6.2.9200.16384 (X86, X64)

Install Win8 steps:

First, create a VHD

1, start-run-diskpart, enter.

2, enter the Create Vdisk file=d:win8.vhd maximum=20480 type=expandable, create a 20G size dynamic extended hard disk win8.vhd (size can adjust themselves).

3, enter select Vdisk file=d:win8.vhd, then enter attach Vdisk, mount the virtual disk created.

4, right key computer-management-Disk Management, OK, will see more than a blue icon of disk 1, Format G disk (may be the letter is another).

Second, the installation system

1. Extract the ImageX.exe to the C:windowssystem32 directory.

2, with winrar decompression download Win8_rtm.iso to E:win8.

3, admin run cmd, input imagex.exe/apply e:win8sourcesinstall.wim 1 G: (64-bit system is imagex64.exe, the following G is the disk character that just created the virtual disk).

4, admin run cmd, input bcdboot g:windows/s C:/L ZH-CN, here C: refers to the location of your active partition. (If you have a 100m boot partition, you must assign the letter and change C to the corresponding letter)

5, restart the computer to select Win8 Start installation system, 5-10 minutes installation completed.

Third, backup system (no need to ignore)

1, restart into the Win7, the win8.vhd renamed to Win8.base.vhd,

2. Start-run-diskpart, enter create Vdisk file=d:win8.vhd parent=d: WIN8.BASE.VHD, created a differential hard drive linked to Win8.base.vhd Win8.vhd, the differential hard drive is only 100kb and will grow with the future. At this point to copy a win8.vhd easy to restore (named Beifen.vhd), later want System Restore, delete win8.vhd, and then beifen.vhd named Win8.vhd can, of course, it is best to do a backup again.

Uninstall Win8:

1, delete the VHD file.

2, start-run-msconfig, point boot, delete Windows 8.