Do you know how to setup a Boot to VHD Image?

Using Boot to VHD is very similar to dual-booting your machine, except that you do not have to partition your hard drive. It also has performance benefits over using a Hyper-V server for presentations.

Pre-Requisites

• The presentation computer running Windows
• A SysPreped VHD image to be deployed onto the presentation computer
• Copy a SysPreped VHD image to the laptop to be used for the presentation.
• Open an Administrative command prompt.
• Type:

bcdedit /copy {default} /d “Demo-NameOfDemo”

Figure - Creating the entry using BCDEdit shows your GUID

4. Type:

bcdedit /set <GUID>  device vhd=[D:]\VM-DEV-SharePoint_2010_Public_Beta.vhd

D:\ is the drive the VHD is located and VM-DEV-SharePoint_2010_Public_Beta.vhd is the location of your VHD file. Make sure you replace <GUID> with the GUID you got in the previous step.

5. Type:

bcdedit /set <GUID>  osdevice vhd=[D:]\VM-DEV-SharePoint_2010_Public_Beta.vhd

D:\ is the drive the VHD is located and VM-DEV-SharePoint_2010_Public_Beta.vhd is the location of your VHD file. Make sure you replace <GUID> with the GUID you got in the previous step.

6. Type:

bcdedit /set <GUID> detecthal on

Figure - Each time you run a BCDEdit command it should return "The operation completed successfully"

7. Reboot the computer and now you will have the option to choose between Windows 7 and the new Boot to VHD image.