They have a specialized tool that installed Windows on my Contabo VPS in just 2-3 minutes.

The process is incredibly simple:

1. Choose your preferred Windows version on their website: https://digitaldron.com/contabo-windows-installation/
2. Open Windows installer tool: https://installer.digitaldron.com/
3. Validate your order and click Install
   
   
   
   
   
4. Just wait a few minutes while everything installs and configures automatically.
   
   
   
   
   
   
5. Once the installation is complete, you can simply connect your windows with remote desktop protocol (RDP) session.

Enjoy Lifetime Windows on contabo server without any extra fee 😎🔥🔥

In my experience, this is the most hassle-free way to get Windows running on a Contabo VPS without paying ongoing monthly license fees.

I'm trying to install Windows on Contabo VPS but get this error:

- 0% 0 --.-KB/s dd: writing to '/dev/vda': No space left on device
1+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes copied, 0.419998 s, 0.0 kB/s
- 0% 61.25K --.-KB/s in 0.1s


Cannot write to ‘-’ (Broken pipe).

Does anyone know how to fix it?

Thank you!

Glad it worked for you! Not sure why you couldn't rdp. You can always try changing the rdp port if contabo has blocked rdp for some reason. I don't have a vps with them anymore:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/remote/remote-desktop-services/clients/change-listening-port

Glad my writeup has been helpful! You have a few options. Easiest would be to boot to rescue and use dd to image off the disk to an ftp or sftp location of your chosing, then do the same in reverse on a new system. If your new systems rescue has direct ssh, you can even dd direct across:

https://www.barryhubbard.com/linux/ghost-hard-drive-to-an-ftp-server/

Or

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thegeekdiary.com/how-to-clone-linux-disk-partition-over-network-using-dd/amp/

You would need to setup an ftp server somewhere or on your home PC to capture the image if using the first link. e.g. https://filezilla-project.org/ The second link would be direct from one vps to another.

First off, thank you to the authors/contributors of this site who have created the awesome guides and images.

I'm sure there is an easier way to do this, but my searches yielded no results, so I'm posting this in case someone else is trying to this. If there is an easier way, please feel free to trump my post with updated instructions/links.

Contabo appears to use virtio-scsi drivers for their SSD VPS, and I could not find a Win10 image, but did find a way to get it done with the guides here. Here's the high level steps I took:

Look at the VirtIO-SCSI instructions on this site for Windows 7 (at this time, I believe this is the only -scsi image available, others are marked "coming soon.")

Follow the instructions to get this image installed on your contabo SSD VPS, but change /dev/sdb at the end of the install statement to /dev/sda.

Reboot your VPS and login. Note, it will not be happy. Things like Event Viewer and other basic services will fail to load, and the system may even bug check if left on for a few hours, so you'll want to perform the next steps immediately after the image is loaded.

Download and install the latest virtio-scsi drivers (google proxmox virtio drivers, contabo uses proxmox as well.)

Download the Windows 10 image (free) from Microsoft's website. When you launch the downloader, do not tell it to upgrade Win7, tell it to create an iso. Once complete, mount the iso and copy the contents out to your c drive. From that folder you just copied to your C drive, run the setup.exe, which will kick off the windows 10 install. During the install, I chose to "erase everything" with regards to my previous settings/OS. Windows seemed resilient enough to keep the drivers it needed however. It also will ask you for a valid key, so you can register windows properly using this process. Once complete, Windows 10 came up without issue and has been very stable ever since. Even better, Contabo's CPU configuration is 2 sockets. I have the "top" vps package so it's 2 sockets, 5 cores each for 10 cores total, and 50gb ram. Windows 10 can see and use all ram, storage and cpu's. I note this because some other VPS providers present each core as a socket, and Windows 10 will only support up to 2 sockets.

Anyway, hope this may help someone along the way.

I followed this tutorial and it's working ! Thanks !

Just a question : how to clone my installation on an other vVPS on Contabo ?

An other VPS on an other provider ?

I saw that tutorial too, but there are quiete a few more things that you have to do in Linux compared to edrock200 way.

For people who want a quick way to change your Contabo Linux VPS into a Windows VPS i would still recommend edrock200s step by step guide, specially because you don't have to do any resizing of the filesytems in Linux.

With the help of your tutorial i was able to turn my Contabo Linux VPS into a full-flechted Windows 10 Pro VPS.

And also thank you to WhatUpTime for providing these awesome windows templates.

I did have an issue where i couldn't RDP into my server with the WhatUpTime account, but using the "workaround" of giving myself an invite to do Windows Remote Help i was able to get into it and start the installation of Win10 Pro (doing it over VNC is a rather shitty process, especially when your mouse doesn't work properly).

Wish i had known about this before, i was using a way to overpriced Strato Windows Server VPS for many years. Seeing the specs on the Linux machines really makes me wonder why this is not more popular.

https://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/spice-guest-tools/spice-guest-tools-latest.exe