I made a backup of a virtual machine running on Hyper-V. It's Windows Server 2008. The backup is a VHD. How do I do a full system restore on this? I've tried booting to a windows installation disc and doing a restore from a share, but that's resulting in an error message: "The selected system image cannot be restored in this recovery environment" Any ideas?Makolyte, Software Developer + System/Network Admin

The VHD file is from a Windows Backup, it's not a virtual machine's VHD.Makolyte, Software Developer + System/Network Admin

Ok so i have the backup, now how do i restore it? I've tried restoring from Windows Recovery on bootup, but it says it's not able to restore. Am I possibly trying to restore using the wrong OS disc or something? Makolyte, Software Developer + System/Network Admin

Hi Makolyte, Like what Jeff has said, you can't restore directly from a VHD. What you can do is: 1. Create a Virtual machine (VM) using Hyper-V. 2. Connect the VHD to the VM 3. Boot the VM. If you are trying to restore the data from a VM to a physical disk, please read this link. However, do it at your own risk. Make sure you have a backup of the VHD file before you attempt this.Jabez Gan [MVP] - http://www.msblog.org Contributing Author for: (Sybex) MCTS: Windows Server 2008 Applications Infrastructure Configuration Study Guide: Exam 70-643

Hi, Sorry for the confusion. It is not possible to boot the VHD directly as it does not have a boot loader. You can attach the VHD to disk management to recover the data - that's the farthest you can go. To access the Attach VHD option, single click on Disk Management (inside Computer Management), and once it has loaded up the other disks, right click on Disk Management and you should have the option to Attach VHD. Jabez Gan [MVP] - http://www.msblog.org Contributing Author for: (Sybex) MCTS: Windows Server 2008 Applications Infrastructure Configuration Study Guide: Exam 70-643

Thanks, i will try that. Thanks again for all your help.Makolyte, Software Developer + System/Network Admin

Hi, As You use System restore and get nothing ,i suggest you to try to use any third party application to restore data of VHD.The main reason of this is not possible to boot the VHD directly as it does not have a boot loader. You can get more Information from here http://www.virtualdiskrecovery.com/