Show hidden Devices after P2V for Windows 2008 / R2

[Nautilus]

How i can show the hidden devices on a P2V Windows 2008 Server.

This does NOT work!.

set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1

devmgmt.msc

Kind regards

Nautilus

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[vmroyale]

Hello.

Maybe asking the obvious here, but did you remember to do the View -> Show Hidden Devices as well? MS kb 269155 shows that these commands still work for Windows 2008.

Good Luck!

[Nautilus]

i know what you mean,

but this works with windows 2000/2003 and

NOT

Windows 2008. Windows 2008 does not show hidden Devices, like older network card and other devices.

Kind regards

Nautilus

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[paulmack]

You have to add devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices as a System variable in 2008.

right click Computer and choose properties then click Advanced System Settings.

Click the Environment Variables button.

Click New System Variable button (The bottom "new" button).

Variable name = devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices

Variable value = 1

Ok out of this and open device manager and enable hidden devices in the view menu.

Cheers

Paul

[Nautilus]

yes i do this and this doesnt work on Windows 2008.

Kind regards

Nautilus

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[averylarry]

from a command prompt (run as administrator)

set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=yes

start devmgmt.msc

view - show hidden devices

works for me on 2008 SP2 and 2008 R2.

[kid23lopez]

I had same issue. Ran the correct command as I always did for win2k3 and I realized since Win2k8 is sortof like WIn7 I decided to run CMD as admin. Voila it works.

Even though I was already logged in as domain admin I figured I give the right-click/run as administrator option a try and that worked.