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Restore WHS-V1 to a Hyper-V child partition

Started By Joe_Miner, Aug 05 2012 11:53 AM

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#1 Joe_Miner

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Posted 05 August 2012 - 11:53 AM

Mostly to see if it could be done --- I restored a WHS-V1 backup of an old XP-Home machine to a Hyper-V VHD. The only problem will be once it's restored you'll need to active Windows again -- luckily I still had the key for that machine -- [unfortunately there's another really old XP machine that I do want to restore but I'm not sure where the heck the key is for that thing :( ]

The take-hm info here is that it can be done it's just you will need legal keys to activate windows and probably everything else that required activation on that machine.

Haven't tried it yet but this should also work with restores from other platforms like WHS-2011.

Edited by Joe_Miner, 05 August 2012 - 12:08 PM.

WHS-V1: HP EX-487: 4*WD20EARX, Athena AP-MFATX30, 4GB G.Skill, E5200, Stablebit Scanner-|-
WHS-2011: HP N54L G7, Kingston ECC 8GB KVR1333D3E9SK2/8G, OS: 256GB M4, 5*ST3000DM001, WD PCIe USB3, R640L, Stablebit DrivePool & Scanner -|-
Labs: HP N40L, G.Skill 16GB F3-1333C9D-16GAO, Misc HDD's -|- HP N40L, KingstonECC KVR1333D3E9SK2/16G, CorsairGT60GB, 1xVR, Misc HDD's -|-
S2012DC VM Lab: Lian-Li K9WX, Z77X-UD5H, i7-3770, 32GBG.Skill, 240GBCorsairGT, 2xSamsung840Pro256G, 2xVR's, + Misc HDD's-|-
Desktop W8P64: HAF 932,GA-X58A-UD3R,i7-930,12GB,240GB Corsair GS + Misc HDD's,HD5850,Samsung Series9 & 213T+Planar PX2710MW,C920 -|-
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Posted 05 August 2012 - 02:55 PM

I keep all my key/license info in LastPass

If at first you don't succeed, do it like your mother told you.

#3 jmwills

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Posted 06 August 2012 - 04:25 AM

I'll second Last Pass! Great little tool.

Joe, have you ever thought about using XP Mode from inside a Windows 7 machine? It's a free version of XP.
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#4 Joe_Miner

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Posted 06 August 2012 - 08:53 AM

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Joe, have you ever thought about using XP Mode from inside a Windows 7 machine? It's a free version of XP.


Yes. I have XP Mode installed on my main desktop with Windows Vurtual PC. It was my First experience with VM's -- even before OB. I remember getting some pretty spectacular errors when I tried to run both at the same time :(

I guess my whole point of this thread was my discovery that (if I have the appropriate SW keys) it's fairly simple to restore from a WHS-V1 backup to a Hyper-V machine. That's pretty neat in my book. I'm sure most everyone else already knew this was doable -- it was news to me that I could actually do it.

I tried it with my Dad's old pc because I had backed it up before formatting it's HD then realized there were a few things I should have gotten off of it first and that's when I thought "hey, this would be a good time to try............."

Now it has me wondering about if I were to install W8 onto my main desktop I could put my old W7 Desktop into a Hyper-V child under W8 on the main desktop or migrate it to my Hyper-V Lab set-up.

WHS-V1: HP EX-487: 4*WD20EARX, Athena AP-MFATX30, 4GB G.Skill, E5200, Stablebit Scanner-|-
WHS-2011: HP N54L G7, Kingston ECC 8GB KVR1333D3E9SK2/8G, OS: 256GB M4, 5*ST3000DM001, WD PCIe USB3, R640L, Stablebit DrivePool & Scanner -|-
Labs: HP N40L, G.Skill 16GB F3-1333C9D-16GAO, Misc HDD's -|- HP N40L, KingstonECC KVR1333D3E9SK2/16G, CorsairGT60GB, 1xVR, Misc HDD's -|-
S2012DC VM Lab: Lian-Li K9WX, Z77X-UD5H, i7-3770, 32GBG.Skill, 240GBCorsairGT, 2xSamsung840Pro256G, 2xVR's, + Misc HDD's-|-
Desktop W8P64: HAF 932,GA-X58A-UD3R,i7-930,12GB,240GB Corsair GS + Misc HDD's,HD5850,Samsung Series9 & 213T+Planar PX2710MW,C920 -|-
HTPC3 W8P64WMC: GD05B, GA-Z68MX-UD2H-B3, i5-2500K, 16GB G.Skill, Corsair GTX 240GB, Crucial M4 256GB , C910, Camtasia-|-
Laptop W8P64WMC: Acer 1810T, 4GB RAM, 240GB Corsair GT SSD-|-

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Posted 06 August 2012 - 09:20 AM

I believe once you do that particular process, the SID of the machine is reset causing the Product Key to become invalid.
Windows 7 Desktop - Antec 100 Case, Intel D8H67BL, OCZ 550W PSU, Intel i3-530 CPU w/16GB G-Skill DDR3 1333 RAM
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