Disk2vhd - Creating a virtual machine from the vhd file is not working

Question

I am trying to create a virtual machine of a Windows 10 laptop using Sysinternals Disk2vhd utility.

First I created a vhd file of the laptops C: drive using Disk2vhd. Afterwards i copied the vhd file to my Windows 10 desktop computer and created a virtual machine in Hyper-V-Manager. When i start the virtual machine i only get a black screen with a blinking cursor and nothing else is happening. I already searched for the issue but i am not sure what i am doing wrong here.

Thank you in advance for your help!

Answer 1

Update: I created a vdhx (before i was using vhd) file of the laptops C: drive using Disk2vhd. Afterwards i created a new virtual machine in Hyper-V-Manager and choose Generation 2 in the setup. The virtual machine is booting now and i can see the login screen but after a short time the virtual machine is crashing with a blue screen (0xC000000F). Any ideas how i can fix this?

Answer 2

Update: I discovered that you can also attach a vhd or vhdx file in Windows 10 through the Computer Management (for more information refer to this article). I attached a fresh copy of the vhdx file i previously tried to boot in Hyper-V and everything works as expected and i can access the data stored in the vhdx file. The Computer Management shows that the partitions: efi, windows ntfs and recovery are error free. I still don't know the reason for the continuously appearing blue screen in Hyper-V.