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AuraticTrance said:

Is it possible to change the drive ID from C: to any other letter after Windows boots ? for the casewhen applying the image to a VHD ?

Kari said:

New video: Dual Boot - The Easy Way

The easiest possible method to dual boot. No partitioning, no virtualization required. DeployWindows 10 on a virtual hard disk VHD or VHDX �le, add it to boot menu. When done, when youno longer want to dual boot, just delete the VHD �le.

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The DISKPART script and deployment batch from video:

DISKPART scripts are normal text �les with extension .txt. To run a DISKPART script, enterfollowing command:

diskpart /s DRIVE:\FOLDER\SCRIPT.TXT

Here's the script used in video:

Code:

Save script as VHDCon�g.txt

Above script creates a dynamically expanding 50 GB (51,200 MB) VHDX �le (you can use .vhd or.vhdx) named W10PRO.vhdx in root of drive F:, labels it Windows and assigns it a temporarydrive letter W:. Edit script to meet your needs, be sure the drive you create VHD has double thefree storage than the size of VHD; if you will create a 100 GB VHD �le to be used in dual boot, thedrive where it will be created needs 200 GB free.

Also, be sure to assign an unused drive letter! I always use W: which I have reserved for thispurpose, never assigning it to anything else. In any case the drive letter will only be needed fordeployment, it will be freed when VHD will be unmounted.

The deployment batch is really simple, too. It just runs DISKPART script to set up VHD, deploysWindows on it with DISM, adds it to host boot menu and �nally changes the boot menu entry tosomething more descriptive:

Code:

Save batch �le as VHDBoot.bat

Again, edit the batch to meet your needs. Be sure path to DISKPART script is correct, and thatpath to install.wim (or in case of MCT ISO install.esd) is correct in DISM command. Select correctindex value. Check that BCDBOOT will add Windows to boot menu from correct disk, the driveletter here must be the same DISKPART script assigned to VHD.

Windows 10 ISO edition index values

Table 1: O�cial Windows 10 ISO images

Edition index values for ISO images downloaded from Download Windows 10 Disc Image (ISOFile)

ESD = ISO image created with Windows Media Creation Tool (install.esd �le instead ofinstall.wim)WIM = WIM based ISO image (requires browser user agent change)

create vdisk file=F:\W10PRO.vhdx maximum=51200 type=expandable attach vdisk create part primary format quick label="Windows" assign letter=W exit

start /wait diskpart /s E:\Users\Kari\Scripts\VHDConf.txt start /wait dism /apply-image /imagefile:I:\sources\install.wim /index:8 /applydir:W:\ start /wait bcdboot W:\Windows start /wait bcdedit /set {default} description "W10 PRO EN-GB (VHD)" cls @echo off echo. echo Windows deployed to VHD file echo and added to host boot menu. echo. pause exit

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Notice that values in WIM column also apply for o�cial Insider ISO images downloaded fromDownload Windows 10 Insider Preview Advanced

Edition ESD WIM

Home 1 1

Home N 2 2

Home SL 3 3

Pro 6 6

Pro N 7 7

Pro Education - 8

Pro Education N - 9

Pro for Workstation - 10

Pro for Workstation N - 11

Education 4 4

Education N 5 5

Table 2: Visual Studio (former MSDN) subscriber ISO images

Edition index values for ISO images downloaded from Sign in to your accountVSB= Business editions ISO imageVSC= Consumer editions ISO image

Edition VSB VSC

Home - 1

Home N - 2

Home SL - 3

Pro 5 6

Pro N 6 7

Pro Education 7 8

Pro Education N 8 9

Pro for Workstation 9 10

Pro for Workstation N 10 11

Education 1 4

Education N 2 5

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Enterprise N 4 -

Enterprise for Virtual Desktops 11 -

All single edition ISO images have index value 1 for edition in question regardless of edition, forinstance whatever edition you are running, its index = 1 if you made the ISO by yourself withUUPtoISO.

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When i boot into a VHD, the drive letter of the VHD which was previously assigned X: (say) during creation,changes to C: and the default OS drive which is C: originally changes to D: and becomes in-accessible andshows the pop up message to format before use, also a CHKDSK is automatically performed on D:(originally C:) when windows is loading from VHD (at the rolling dots screen). Don't know why this ishappening ? Although this happened only during the �rst time when booting into the VHD.

When i boot back to my default OS on HDD, everything's �ne.

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The Booted OS will Always be CThe letter assignment is for Mounting the VHD in the OS

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Exactly.

Whatever Window OS you select from boot menu, it's always going to b drive C: and other operatingsystems, their drive letters, changed accordingly.

Kari

Kyhi said:

The Booted OS will Always be CThe letter assignment is for Mounting the VHD in the OS

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WinNTSetup has an option called "Mount installation drive as: ", i tried applying a Windows 7 image to aVHD and booted into it and the drive letter of the OS drive was successfully changed but C: was still in-accessible.

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