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Hi, this is probably going to make a lot of people sigh at this question but I've read a lot of answers and tried to solve this myself but can't

I'm trying to install a Windows 10 ISO image (image is freshly downloaded), I kept hitting issues where at the stage of writing the files to disk in the initial installation I would get random crashes (BSoD). I read an answer here that suggested that I turn off Hyper-V.

I got a little further, no more random BSoD after doing that but then proceeded to get errors telling me that it couldn't read from the source after a long wait. I then read that for some reason I needed to make the SATA 1 device that had the ISO loaded an IDE. This actually worked (slowly but at least Windows 10) is now installed.

I now have not managed to do any boot as it takes an absolute age to boot into windows. It freezes but then unfreezes and slowly progresses. I've left it for an age (over 30 minutes) and it nearly loaded the desktop. I can't find any answers to this that have worked so I'm here asking for help.

Of course I have my log files (I have learnt you guys need this lol)

Many thanks

Hyper-V is still enabled. See HMR3Init: Attempting fall back to NEM (Hyper-V is active)

scottgus1 wrote:Hyper-V is still enabled. See (You must be a member for 1 days and have 1 posts before you can post urls.)

Thanks scottgus1

I followed a quick guide on turning Hyper-V off and when I checked it was a disabled feature but since running the command in the post you linked I've had very different results

I don't why there's a difference in disabling the feature through the GUI and disabling it via CLI but that would certainly catch people out

It is not really the fact that Hyper-V or any of its components or related features is installed. They will not interfere with the operation of VirtualBox if the hypervisor does not load.

In my experience the fail-safe fix is to prevent the hypervisor from loading using bcdedit, as recommended many times by many different people in this and other forums.

I have a test machine which has both Hyper-V and VirtualBox installed for testing the progress on running them in parallel. Everything in VirtualBox works perfectly if the hypervisor does not load.

I'll add that if you looked at the 'Hyper-V is active' link above it would have shown you the original tutorial on this subject I have a 64bit host, but can't install 64bit guests, which shows all the other stuff on Windows 10 that also uses the Hyper-V hypervisor.