Hi Pentagon , I know what you mean and I partially agree with you on many things.
I just don't agree with some other things of what you describe.
In my opinion the point is not in...

Not clear what the OP exactly did on disks, however it is precisely for this reason that I suggested to him to make the Disk 0 out deleting its Windows partition, so then his VHD would not boot and...

I see, just because it's a NVMe SSD.

However, you can always create an image file of the partition on which your Windows resides and then delete that volume or format it.
Try to see if it still...

Very good, glad to hear that you have finally achieved your goal. ;)

Just for the record, have you also tried to see if the VHD still boots by simulating a Disk 0 (that's where your Windows...

Surely if you don't add anything else it won't work.

And, sorry if I'm not happy (for personal reasons) to follow your steps searching for errors with diskpart, I use diskpart, but only when...

???
I don't think anyone asked you to do that, why would you want to do this?


Okay, but as before described there are alternatives.

If you can't boot your VHD from Disk 0 completely failed,...

Short answer: no.

Long answer: I can see that you are passionate and that you want to learn and I like that.
Let's proceed one step at a time.
Between us, I don't see anything wrong with the...

Please note that in my humble experience and despite what Microsoft claims, one can boot under Windows 10 even a "simple" VHD file containing Window 10 itself or what one wants.


Not true,...

Glad to hear about that.

Please note that you don't need at all 4 partitions on your virtual disk in order to boot it, even if you want to encrypt it running BitLocker.
You just need the single...

With due respect I believe that Windows 10 does not require the "treatment" that indeed was needed under Windows 7.

My opinion, for what it's worth, is that only the "BootDriverFlags" value...

AFAIK There are two ways, the easiest one is to run it on your actual system before cloning it: purists say that the boot time is lengthened (theoretically) due to the fact that the USB 2.0 and 3.0...

reg ADD HKLM\SYSTEM\HardwareConfig\{8c2faede-eae0-7113-a972-2cf05dac9860} /v "BootDriverFlags" /t REG_DWORD /d 14 /f

I do not know why, but I noticed that in some scenarios it seems better to...

Hi,
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Thank you!
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