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I have a VHD that I boot into in a dual-boot scenario with Win7. I was testing doing a full system restore from my WHS and while the host Win7 works fine, attempting to boot into the VHD gives me a device not found error. Haven't been able to find anything regarding this issue.

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does this mean that you are native booting a vhd? if so what os was running when the whs backup was created? – tony roth Jul 1 '10 at 18:24
Correct, I'm not using the VHD as a VM. I only have the "real" Win7 being backed up to WHS. Figured since it was a file on the host, it would be backed up with the rest (which it is and I can mount it from within the host Win7). Trouble is when I try to boot to it, it fails. – user47323 Jul 1 '10 at 21:59
do you have access to bcdedit if so run bcdedit /enum my guess is that the restore process doesn't update the bcd file. – tony roth Jul 1 '10 at 22:07
it's there: Windows Boot Loader ------------------- identifier {8bc78a65-a3ef-11de-9d82-d43d64f08dd4} device unknown path \Windows\system32\winload.exe description LMI VPN locale en-US inherit {bootloadersettings} recoverysequence {8bc78a66-a3ef-11de-9d82-d43d64f08dd4} recoveryenabled Yes osdevice unknown systemroot \Windows resumeobject {8bc78a60-a3ef-11de-9d82-d43d64f08dd4} nx OptIn – user47323 Jul 1 '10 at 23:34
The "osdevice unknown" seems weird. This was a test to see if the restore would work, so I'm going to pop the original drive back in the box and see if that's different. – user47323 Jul 1 '10 at 23:37
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