Convert vhdx to vhd

Hi,
Running Server 2012 R2
I have a requirement to convert a vhdx to vhd. I used the builtin feature in the hyperv manager to convert the vhdx (Fixed) disk to a vhd (fixed).
When i create a new server an attach this vhd disk, i get an error when the vm boots. It briefly displays the windows logo, then gives an error: boot failure. Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device. This occurs
whether i attach the disk as ide or scsi.
Why would the converted drive no longer be bootable?
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Sean

If the VM was a Generation2 virtual machine, then it is UEFI. And VHD can only be used with Generation1 virtual machines which are BIOS.
The OS in the VM cannot simply handle the bootloader change between BIOS and UEFI.
That is what I suspect is going on.
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How to convert VHDX to VHD file format on windows 8 / Windows server 2012?

Here is an article to describe how to convert virtual hard disk VHDX file format to VHD
http://anuraggawande.blogspot.in/2012/10/vhdx-to-vhd-conversion.html

Hi,
Thanks for sharing the web link!
You help other community members who facing similar problems.
Thanks for your contribution to Windows Server Forum!
To convert VHD format, you can also use Convert-VHD comlet. The Convert-VHD cmdlet converts a virtual hard disk file by copying the data from a source virtual hard disk file to a new virtual hard disk file of a specified format and version type. The format
is determined by the file extension of the specified files, either .vhdx or .vhd. Conversion is an offline operation; the virtual hard disk must not be attached when the operation is started.
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Convert-VHD
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh848454.aspx
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Using PowerShell to Convert a VHD to a VHDX
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2012/10/03/using-powershell-to-convert-a-vhd-to-a-vhdx.aspx
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Convert VMDK to VHD

Hi!
I have installed Hyper V, and I'd like to convert my vmdk (vmware) to vhd files.
In order to do that, I download this:
http://vmtoolkit.com/blogs/announcements/archive/2006/11/20/vmdk-to-vhd-converter-available.aspx
The result is a file very small (56kb) whereas the size of my virtual hard disk is 8Gb.
Then, I attach this file (vhd) to my VM but the system doesn't boot. Why?
Thanks

Simon,
Mon francais est a petit mal... je ne pas parle francais en a propos 20 ans, mais je comprende assez simplement a faire la conversion. Merci beacoup pour la guide! Je voulu installer Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V en mon Windows 7 l'installation.
J'ai dû
commencer par une image
VMWare
du Win2k8R2,
le convertir en
un VHD,
et enfin à double
boot
mon installation Win7
original et
le VHD convertis.
C'est le seul moyen
que j'ai trouvé pour
lancer Hyper-V sur
Windows 7. (et merci a Google translate)
Salut!
Aaron
Simon,
My french is pretty bad... I haven't spoken it in about 20 years, but I understood just enough to do the conversion. Thanks a lot for the guide! I wanted to install Win2k8R2 with Hyper-V on my Win7 installation.
I started with a VMWare image of Win2k8R2 (w/ Hyper-V) before the first reboot during installation, converted it to a VHD (via his guide), and finally I dual booted my original installation of Win7 with the converted VHD (yes, physical boot of virtual
hard drive). This is the only way that I could boot a 64-bit version of Windows on my Windows 7 hardware.
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Hi,
Have a dynamic vhd of 1.7 TB - currently expanded to 1.4 TB.
The volumes on the SAN is 2TB.
Need to convert the dynamic vhd to fixed vhd but as you can see there is not enough Space on the SAN volume.
Any suggestion on how this may be solved without loosing the huge amount of data on the disk?
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Hi,
In addition , convert-vhd applies to windows 8 and later , if you are using 2008r2 please use GUI to convert it .
Also you can refer to following link regarding using powershell :
http://blogs.technet.com/b/tonyso/archive/2009/08/18/hyper-v-how-to-convert-a-vhd-using-script.aspx
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Convert a dynamic vhd to fixed vhd using Convert-VHD cmdlet

Hi folks,
I have dynamically expanding vhd. Now I want to convert it to fixed size vhd.
I used the Convert-VHD cmdlet, which works fine.
But if I give the source and want to overwrite my dynamic vhd to the fixed vhd, it is throwing error, such the file exists.
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Syntax is like below
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you need to have different names :-) like a copy command in the old days of DOS
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Hi,
can i convert a dynamic vhd to fixed vhd or vhdx but only insert to the fixed vhd the actual size of the used space that is in the dynamic vhd?
THX

http://technet.microsoft.com/library/hh848454(v=wps.620).aspx
See the VHDType option.
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Convert all VHDX to VHD
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Please let me know if I am missing any info.
Thank you.

Hi vtr1000xe,
You mentioned "Shadow Protect" , does it mean "check point".
If it is the case , It is not recommended using snapshot as backup , please use windows server backup .
As for this sentence "I am unsure of the advantage of adding two extra drives to a Raid-10 set vs using the Raid-1 Host" , the link below will be helpful :
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/f51ce572-1381-425a-8663-3c226980477a/hyperv-raid-options-multiple-raid1-raid10-raid50?forum=winserverhyperv
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