Recent content by timhenn

Now i got it! I changed the bcdedit commands to use the drive letter assigned to the VHD instead of [locate] and, with the other changes discovered above, I'm able to native boot the VHD image. Thanks for the assistance. Tim

Spoke to soon. I've come full circle. After freeing up space and selecting the Win8 VHD for boot at startup I end up in the recovery tools just like i had in the beginning. I did delete the entry created by BCBboot because it had removed my ability to select the OS to boot. I'll return to...

Calico, the article your referenced helped solve the issue...actually, it put me on a nightmarish roller coaster ride, but, I'm back now. Following those instructions the bootloader went immediately to the Win8 VHD (no options to select which OS to start on reboot) but there was an error...

Thanks. I already have a bootable VHD, so, I went through the steps to use diskpart, locate the volume, attach it and assign a disk letter v. When i try to run the bcdboot v:\windows command i get the error: The progam can't start because api-ms-win-core-file-l1-1-1.dll is missing from your...

New to Win8 and this forum... Using my Server 2008 R2 host, created a Win8 VM/VHD and it boots, works fine. I followed instructiong using BCDEdit to add the VHD to my boot options. When i reboot and select the VHD it begins to load then fails. I end up in the recovery option tools. Looking...