Now, as for a third party software, one good tool is:

System image to restore the contents of your computer if your hardĬheck out this for Windows 7, this and this for Windows 8. Windows and your system settings, programs, and files. Includes the drives required for Windows to run. Therefore I recommend to accompany this Windows tool with a full disk image tool of your choice.Ī system image is an exact copy of a drive. Because if Windows it self crashes, then it won't be able to restore it self back! Especially in the event of hard drive crash then everything will be lost. But personally, I wouldn't rely on it that much. $vm = Add-AzVMNetworkInterface -VM $vm -Id $nic.If you are using Windows 8 (and Windows 7 as well), they have included this feature as System Image which seems promising. $vm = Set-AzVMOperatingSystem -VM $vm -Windows -ComputerName $vm_name -Credential $vm_cred -ProvisionVMAgent -EnableAutoUpdate $vm = Set-AzVMOSDisk -VM $vm_adfs -ManagedDiskId $disk_adfs.Id -CreateOption Attach -Windows

$vm = New-AzVMConfig -VMName $vm_name -VMSize 'Standard_DS1_V2' $disk = New-AzDisk -ResourceGroupName $rg_name -DiskName $vm_name -Disk $diskconfig My code is the following $diskconfig = New-AzDiskConfig -Location $location -DiskSizeGB 127 -AccountType Standard_LRS -OsType Windows -CreateOption Empty + FullyQualifiedErrorId : .NewAzureVMCommand

+ CategoryInfo : CloseError : (:), ComputeCloudException + New-AzVM -ResourceGroupName $rg_name -Location $location -VM $vm_adfs. New-AzVM : Cannot attach an existing OS disk if the VM is created from a platform, user or a shared gallery image.ĮrrorMessage: Cannot attach an existing OS disk if the VM is created from a platform, user or a shared gallery image. I have tried using 'New-AzDisk' 'Set-AzVMOSDisk' and 'New-AzVM' powershell commands but got an error : I want to choose HDD os disk for a new VM to be deployed.

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