This download comes as a pre-configured VHD and helps you evaluate the new features of Windows Server 2003 R2, the most productive infrastructure platform for powering connected applications, networks, and Web services from the workgroup to the data. ...
- WIN2K3R2EE.part1.exe
- Microsoft Corporation.
- Freeware (Free)
- 700 Mb
- Win2003
Kernel for VHD recovery software is third party utility that helps in restoring all corrupt VHD data. Easy to use and interactive, this software comes in free trial edition as well.
- restorevhd.exe
- Restore VHD
- Shareware ($199.00)
- 3.7 Mb
- Win2000, Win7 x32, Win7 x64, Win98, WinServer, WinVista, WinVista x64, WinXP, Win8
It is recover corrupted, damaged and lost VHD files without any error. The VHD data recovery software performs effectively recovery of all types of lost files and folders such as- video, images, audio, document, database files, archives, media etc.
- rBits-vhd-recovery-wizard.exe
- rBits
- Shareware ($99.00)
- 1.22 Mb
- Win2000, Win7 x32, Win7 x64, Win98, WinServer, WinVista, WinVista x64, WinXP
1st Privacy Tool is a security utility that allows you to restrict access to Windows important resources. This utility helps you to keep your computer in order. It enables you to impose a variety of access restrictions to protect your privacy.
- wptool.zip
- 1st Security Software Center
- Shareware ($34.95)
- 1.46 Mb
- WinXP, Windows2000, Windows2003, Windows Vista
Actual Windows Minimizer lets you minimize any application to a small icon in the System Tray or to any Screen Edge. This feature helps you save the taskbar and desktop space and use them in a more efficient manner.
- awmsetup.exe
- Actual Tools
- Shareware ($17.95)
- 1.37 Mb
- Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT 4.x, WinXP, Windows2000
A program to recover all types of Windows passwords - logon password (when user is logged on), screensaver password, RAS/dial-up passwords, passwords to shared resources etc. It also runs brute-force and dictionary attacks on Windows 9x PWL files.
- awpr.zip
- ElcomSoft Co. Ltd.
- Shareware ($60.00)
- 1.69 Mb
- Win95, Win98, WinME, WinXP, WinNT 4.x, Windows2000
Send/Receive fax from Single computer; for Windows 95/98/NT/2000/2003/XP. You can try it for FREE. FaxMail is the easiest fax program to use that we offer.
- fmfax.exe
- ElectraSoft
- Shareware ($59.99)
- 1.03 Mb
- Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT 4.x, Windows2000, WinXP, Windows2003
Award winning Privacy For Windows provides password protection for Windows 95 or 98, eliminating unauthorized access. The password is encoded for extra protection.This program miminizes to the system tray for quick loading.
- privacy.exe
- Nhuntsoftware
- Shareware ($19.95)
- 1.93 Mb
- Win95, Win98, WinME
Open Windows Manager can make you manage all the open windows more conviently. At first, Open Windows Manager collects all the open windows into a popup menu, and it also puts a small float and transparent window(32*32 pixels) on the top of the screen. When you let the mouse move over the float window, the popup menu which contains all the open windows will pop up to you immediately.
- OWinMgr_Setup.EXE
- WFly Software, Inc
- Shareware ($12.00)
- 668 Kb
- Win98, WinME, WinNT 4.x, WinXP, Windows2000
Hide windows program (hide applications)completely through a hotkey or as an icon in system tray.Hide some less used icons from tray.Arrange the windows on taskbar based on your choice.Automatically maximize all new windows or only new IE windows.
- THSetup.exe
- Eusing Software
- Shareware ($19.95)
- 747 Kb
- Win95, Win98, WinME, WinXP, Windows2000, Windows2003
Windows System Optimizer is an optimizer software that speeds up your system, giving you maximum performance. It includes cleanup tools for Windows system.
- windowssystemoptimizer.exe
- WindowsSystemOptimizer
- Shareware ($29.99)
- 1.89 Mb
- Win95, Win98, WinNT 4.x, Windows2000, WinXP
Acronis True Image Server for Windows creates an exact disk image of your live Windows server without shutting down and interrupting server operations. After a server crash you can restore the entire system or replace lost files from a disk backup.
- trueimageserver8.0_d_en.exe
- Acronis
- Demo ($699.00)
- 24.1 Mb
- WinME, WinNT 3.x, WinNT 4.x, Windows2000, WinXP
This download helps you evaluate the new features of Windows Server 2003 R2, the most productive infrastructure platform for powering connected applications, networks, and Web services from the workgroup to the data center. Windows Server Enterprise Edition VHD is a fully configured virtual hard disk (VHD) that is meant to help users assess all the features and functions of Windows Server 2003, 2008 or 2008 R2.
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So I have a dev server running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 32 Bit SP2 R2.
Here are the system specs
Motherboard Intel S5520HC
CPU x2 Intel Xeon L5520 (Quad Core @ 2.27 GHz per core, 16 cores total)
RAM 16 GB DDR3 ECC RAM
Storage 120GB SSD
I am well aware that this is a bit overpowered for a dev box.
Anyway, I would like to consolidate my current server 2k3 install a few other systems into one by installing Hyper-V Server on this machine. The other VMs that would be running will be dev/test environments (Windows 7) that currently reside on physical machines. I plan on ordering another 16GB of RAM so I can give each VM plenty of resources.
I have experience using Sysinternals disk2vhd.exe tool with Windows 7 installs and have yet to run into any issues making bootable VMs. The issue I am running into is when I created a VHD of my server 2k3 install (with disk2vhd) and attempted to boot the image with VirtualBox, the VHD seems to boot but I do not see anything on the screen (a black window opens and just sits there).
I have attempted to ping the machine using the IP, NetBios name and FQDN (Network Adapter in VirtualBox is set to Bridged Mode)to see if the VHD is actually booting, but the machine does not seem to be pingable.
I would like to be 100% sure that I will not have any issues booting the 2k3 VHD after I install Hyper-V on this system. Many hours have gone into configuring MSQL and various web components (this machine was configured by a web developer I work with, I am just the system administrator), and I would prefer to not have to start from scratch.
Is it possible to create a bootable VHD of an existing Windows Server 2k3 install for use in Hyper-V? Any clues as to why Virtual Box does not throw any errors when I try to boot the VHD? Are there any other tools (commerical or freeware/open source) that someone could reccomend that I could try to create the VHD?
Let me know if you need more info..
2 Answers
All Disk2VHD does is duplicate the disk into a VHD, so you'll end up with a disk image containing Windows with an improper hardware configuration for use with the VM (hence the black screen at boot).
Just like if you yanked the HDD out of a physical Windows 2003 machine and stuck it into a different physical computer (different chipset, disk controllers, etc.) it won't boot.
Use Microsoft's Virtual Machine Manager. It does a MUCH better job of converting Physical machines to Virtual.
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) allows you to convert existing physical computers into virtual machines through a process known as physical-to-virtual (P2V) conversion. VMM simplifies P2V by providing a task-based wizard to automate much of the conversion process
VMM is part of MS System Center, 2012 is the current version. Although it costs money, they currently offer a trial. The trial was 365 days long when I downloaded it a couple weeks ago.
VMM is great but may be more than needed. You will have to determine. There is also this from technet Disk2vhd