Wim Conversion to VHD on Windows Server 2008r2

[bookie32]

Hi guys

OK! here is the case....lol

I have been looking at converting wim's to vhd's in order to run them in Hyper-V...

I heard there was a nice script for this and downloaded it...here

I then saw at the script had been rewritten to work on Powershell 3.0 and upgraded to that on my Windows Server 2008r2..

I didn't get any errors installing Powershell 3.0 and thought everything was OK.....

I like user interfaces...lol and this guy wrote about the script containing a gui

I ran the user interface command from Powershell 3.0:

.\Convert-WindowsImage.ps1 -ShowUI

I received the following error which seems to point to a problem with netframework:

Windows(R) Image to Virtual Hard Disk Converter for Windows(R) 8
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
Version 6.2.8424.1.amd64fre.fbl_core1_hyp_dev(mikekol).120517-1616 Release Preview

WARN   : Transcription is already running.  No Convert-WindowsImage-specific transcript will be created.
ERROR  : Could not load file or assembly 'System.Linq, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7
f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
INFO   : Log folder is C:\Users\ADMINI~1\AppData\Local\Temp\Convert-WindowsImage\c45aa02b-3d48-4059-9c71-ac1660
3ae632
INFO   : Done.

Does anyone have any idea how to fix this?

Or have a better suggestion about conversion from wim to vhd?

bookie32

[MagicAndre1981]

Have you installed the Win8 ADK, .Net Framework 4.5 and Powershell 3.0?

[bookie32]

Hi MagicAndre1981

No.....I didn't see anything written about that, but will get to that now.

Powershell 3.0 installed without problem....which is a bit strange...

I will have a look at what you have mentioned and post a little later...

Thanks for coming by!

bookie32

[jaclaz]

Powershell 3.0 installed without problem....which is a bit strange...

I will have a look at what you have mentioned and post a little later...

Maybe, BEFORE that, it would be smart to actually READ that page.

Title contains:

WIM2VHD for Windows 8!

About half down the page I can read:

Windows Server 8 	Sì 
Windows Server 2008 R2 	No <-hmmm
Windows Server 2008 	No 
Windows Server 2003 	No 
Windows 8 		Sì 
Windows 7 		No 
Windows Vista 		No 
Windows XP 		No 
Windows 2000 		No

Maybe this:

http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/wim2vhd/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=2603

will work allright .

jaclaz

Edited September 7, 2012 by jaclaz

[bookie32]

Hi jaclas!

I did read that, but it wont be the first time Microsoft has botched information concerning what you can and can't do....

I will run the old script and see how that works....

Thanks for you patience....lol

Well, it is nice to know that I get told now that I need windows 8....

Windows(R) Image to Virtual Hard Disk Converter for Windows(R) 8
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
Version 6.2.8424.1.amd64fre.fbl_core1_hyp_dev(mikekol).120517-1616 Release Preview

WARN   : Transcription is already running.  No Convert-WindowsImage-specific transcript will be created.
ERROR  : Convert-WindowsImage requires Windows 8 Consumer Preview or higher.  Please use WIM2VHD.WSF (http://co
de.msdn.microsoft.com/wim2vhd) if you need to create VHDs from Windows 7.
INFO   : Log folder is C:\Users\ADMINI~1\AppData\Local\Temp\Convert-WindowsImage\6d1e4277-b0e9-4c86-b304-3cc3b8
e3e5f9
INFO   : Done.

That told me didn't it

bookie32

Edited September 7, 2012 by bookie32

[jaclaz]

Well, it is nice to know that I get told now that I need windows 8....

I may add that my "dinosaur's era" windows 2K and XP installs are as outdated as your newish Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 ones.....

jaclaz

[bookie32]

Hi again!

Well, I could use the script and convert my wim to a vhd.....BUT

Maybe this:

http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/wim2vhd/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=2603

will work allright .

jaclaz

Is it necessary to sysprep the wim before converting to vhd.....because I am getting a BSOD with 0x0000007b which suggest driver problems...?

If I don't need to sysprep the wim file - then maybe I need to inject ms drivers into the wim before converting to vhd?

I am just guessing here and would appreciate some feed back.....

Thanks!

bookie32

[bookie32]

Hi again!

Just a little update... the wim image I was converting wasn't sysprepped, so I added the motherboard drivers for the computer the image came from and then it was OK

Thanks!

bookie32