Boot to Windows 7 VHD using an USB stick

This is really cool. Windows 7 can boot to VHD. To do this you have to change the BCD store of your machine. But there is more : you can also do this without changing the host machine !

How?

• put a (bootable) VHD on the host machine
• create a bootable USB
• change the BCD of the USB stick ! (point to the VHD)

The steps in detail are written in John's Post.

This enables you to boot from USB stick into a Windows 7 VHD.

Advantage:

you can quickly use the hardware of a system without changing the system !

sample:

You want to try Windows 7 on an XP laptop but you don’t want to change the XP laptop, because it’s the family’s laptop ;).

Try it. It’s cool !

File recovery on Windows 7

This morning, I accidently deleted a complete folder on my Windows 7 machine. I automaticly use SHIFT-Delete, so I could not Restore the folder and documents from the Recycle-Bin :(

Looking for tools I discovered the Recuva tool from PiriForm. I downloaded the Portable version, so without installer. Extracted the zip on another drive and selected my drive where the folder was accidently deleted.

Thanx to the Recuva tool, I now have all my documents back ! It just worked..

:)