Hi,

I am currently trying to restore a 2008 r2 image which is .VHD extension to Hyper V.

I have created a VM (501GB) and added it as a disk into disk management. The file of the back up is 146GB which is on a external HDD (500GB). So based on that the destination disk is larger.

I am restoring from a shared location and have attached physical drive as IDE Controller. Physcial drive is offline.

I have run diskpart > clean also.

I keep getting this error " 

No disk that can be used for recovering the system disk can be found" 

On searching this error it came down to the physical size of the drive which in my case is fine.

Can anyone help with what may be causing this error? Am i missing something? Driver that may need to be installed?

This is the first time i am installing image on Hyper V so could be missing something crucial