Windows 7 Native Boot Hands-on Lab

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　　Chinese Version: http://www.iyunv.com/WilsonWu/archive/2009/03/02/1401760.html
　　Use Windows 7 Beta for long time, Windows 7 really faster and easier than Vista system, some of new features are very good. one of it is Native boot, use it you can run a system in VHD by your local machine instead of VPC, this is very useful for testers deploy system instead of Ghost.
　　Now start it, follow bellow steps to create a VHD, size between 10G to 15G:
　　1. Open Computer Management:

　　2. Choose the Disk Management:

　　3. And create a VHD file:

　　4. The size is 10G:

　　5. For long time to creating, we can see the VHD like below:
  
　　Now we start install Windows 7 in this VHD, we use VPC 2007 to finish this:
　　6. At first we need to format the VHD, open the CMD:

　　7. Type Diskpart in command line:

　　8. Then type: Select disk 1

　　Here, my VHD is Disk 1, you can change it as your system.
　　9. And type: Create partition primary size=10000:


　　10. Use VPC 2007 install Windows 7:

　　11. Choose Create a new VPC:


　　12. Detach the VHD at first:

　　13. Use the excite VHD in VPC:


　　14. After create like below:

　　Then start install the Windows 7, no more info for this, only give you some pictures:




  
　　When the installation finished, closed the VPC, next is the important:
　　15. Open CMD as administrator:

　　16. Type bcdedit to see the Boot Manager:

　　We can see only one system at here.
　　16. Reattach the VHD in Disk Management:

　　17. After attached like below:

　　18. Then use Diskpart assign a letter for the VHD:


　　19. Back to cmd and type: bcdboot r:\windows /s c:

　　20. Reuse the bcdedit command to see the Boot Manager:

　　Now we can see two system, one in C disk, and another in R disk.
　　Reboot your computer, and run the system in VHD like below:

　　Finished!
　　Thanks!