Windows To Go Step by Step

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Introduction

New to windows 8 is a feature called "Windows to go".

Windows to go allows you to run windows on USB device such as USB stick or USB hard drive.


Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Before you begin
• Step by Step guide on building Windows To Go
  • Step #1. Partition an MBR disk for both UEFI and BIOS use with a FAT32 system partition and an NTFS OS partition
    • A: Using Disk Part
    • B. Using the Graphical Disk Manager
  • Step #2 Apply the image to the OS partition on the disk
  • Step #3. Move the necessary boot components to the system partition on the disk.
  • Step #4. Apply SAN policy 4 to the disk:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/6991.windows-to-go-step-by-step.aspx

 

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Unfortunately they specify USB 3.0 etc.

Have a USB 3.0 drive that reports as fixed.

• Note: Most USB flash drives do not report as fixed (not removable ) and are not performant enough for Windows To Go
• to verify if usb is fixed you should be able to see the word "basic" is computer management otherwise you will see the word "removable"
• Most USB hard drives registers as fixed