I just came across this problem (Windows Server 2008 can’t boot, winload.exe can’t be located) and as it took me about 3 (yes THREE!!) hours to fix I thought I’d share with you all to save you time.
Working on Exchange email archiving software and PST Importing tools we have a test network with quite a few virtual machines, many with Windows Server 2008 installed.
Testing in an Exchange environment has been a challenge for Red Gate Software for some time now as we developed and tested Exchange Server Archiver. Now we are working on a PST Importer tool, we had to once again ‘fire up’ our virtual servers. The problem was a bit more complex this time, because if we want to create a realistic test environment we should have about a hundred virtual machines that we could hook on to our domain. As before, we’ll need mailboxes for these users but this time we would like some of the PST files to be opened in some of the users’ Outlook (I’ll explain this later). So here’s how we managed to do this all without actually creating all the machines for it.
At the moment, I’m working in Red Gate’s Exchange Server Archiver team. One of the great things about the way we work is that I sit just across from Scott, who’s one of our sales guys, so as a developer I get to hear what customers and potential customers are asking about, what they wish we did, and what they love.
