I have Windows 8 CP running off a USB stick as a vhd. For the past 24 hours I have been trying to boot a multipart version of that vhd to get the whole setup on a FAT32 formatted stick. Splitting is no problem and is supposedly supported by Virtual Machine emulators, but is it also supported by Win8's boot manager on a real system? Right now,it doesn't look like it.
If I replace the vhd with the multipart version, then the boot entry just vanishes. Adding it manually with easybcd results in the same thing. I tried to create a vhd on the FAT32 drive during installation in the hopes that it would result in multipart vhd-files automatically, but diskpart errors out due to the 4GB file size limitation. I doubt that this is even supported, but may be someone already did it, or knows a workaround.
Edit: The post was moved to the virtualization forum. This isn't about running Win8 in a VM though, but booting it on a real system.
If I replace the vhd with the multipart version, then the boot entry just vanishes. Adding it manually with easybcd results in the same thing. I tried to create a vhd on the FAT32 drive during installation in the hopes that it would result in multipart vhd-files automatically, but diskpart errors out due to the 4GB file size limitation. I doubt that this is even supported, but may be someone already did it, or knows a workaround.
Edit: The post was moved to the virtualization forum. This isn't about running Win8 in a VM though, but booting it on a real system.
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