I am a bit confused about VHD's and what I can do with them? So this is the story:
A while back the computer was fine, all software installed and configured so I took a backup using the built-in windows tool (windows 8.1) to create a "system backup". This creates a folder called Backup timestamp with various XML files and a VHDX file for each partition (I think). I have put this backup on a separate USB-drive...
Then the computer crashed and i reinstalled windows 8 from the built-in recovery partition (on a non-SSD) disk. I can now mount the VHDX file and start the computer from it, i.e. it seems to be working, no corruption etc.
But what I really want to do is to clone this image to an SSD. So with the working disk I created a usb-recovery disk from within the OS according to http://www.howtogeek.com/131907/how...ery-drive-or-system-repair-disc-in-windows-8/
When I boot with that USB and the empty SSD-disk I can select to recover from a system image and I can find the backup but when I try to recover it says that I should start from a windows installation cd etc?
I am very confused, I thought the whole idea of the system image would be that you could restore it without using any additional media than a usb-recovery tool created from any windows 8 computer?
What is my best options for transferring a VHDX file to a physical SSD and get it to boot?
A while back the computer was fine, all software installed and configured so I took a backup using the built-in windows tool (windows 8.1) to create a "system backup". This creates a folder called Backup timestamp with various XML files and a VHDX file for each partition (I think). I have put this backup on a separate USB-drive...
Then the computer crashed and i reinstalled windows 8 from the built-in recovery partition (on a non-SSD) disk. I can now mount the VHDX file and start the computer from it, i.e. it seems to be working, no corruption etc.
But what I really want to do is to clone this image to an SSD. So with the working disk I created a usb-recovery disk from within the OS according to http://www.howtogeek.com/131907/how...ery-drive-or-system-repair-disc-in-windows-8/
When I boot with that USB and the empty SSD-disk I can select to recover from a system image and I can find the backup but when I try to recover it says that I should start from a windows installation cd etc?
I am very confused, I thought the whole idea of the system image would be that you could restore it without using any additional media than a usb-recovery tool created from any windows 8 computer?
What is my best options for transferring a VHDX file to a physical SSD and get it to boot?
