Virtually Painless - Using Disk2VHD to reduce time to solution

re: Virtually Painless - Using Disk2VHD to reduce time to solution

Tim Newton - MSFT — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:09:05 GMT

Hi Colin,

It is true that the tool should remove hardware specific drivers, but not all filter drivers may be seen as hardware-specific. IABFilt.sys is an Iomega Volume Filter driver and is apparently missed during the conversion. The only thing I can think of is to remove this software from the initial install and then make the VHD from that.

Tim

re: Virtually Painless - Using Disk2VHD to reduce time to solution

Colin Walters — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:28:28 GMT

Disk2VHD does not work for me. The VHD file is created and Windows 7 virtual PC opens the VPC I build to use the VHD. The

initial boot commences and then hangs. I can start it in safe mode, which starts listing the drivers in windows\system32\drives and hangs after IABFilt.sys. None of the other F8 boot functions work any better.

I thought this utility was supposed to remove the hardware specific drivers from the original XP system; so that only those that are virtual PC compatible would be loaded. But that does not appear to be the case. How can I troubleshoot the VPC boot problem?

re: Virtually Painless - Using Disk2VHD to reduce time to solution

uçak bileti — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:39:54 GMT

Very good program. Thank you for information.

re: Virtually Painless - Using Disk2VHD to reduce time to solution

moonman — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:30:16 GMT

Absoluetly fantastic tool. Thank You!