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Wim Conversion to VHD on Windows Server 2008r2


bookie32

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Hi guys :thumbup

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..... :ph34r:

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

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Hi MagicAndre1981 :thumbup

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

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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 :unsure: .

jaclaz

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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.... :lol:



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 :w00t:

bookie32

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Hi again!

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

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

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