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How to access data from the local disk when running a Windows To Go Workspace

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 23:24:24 +0000

When provisioning a Windows To Go Workspace using the Windows 8 build-in Windows To Go creator or following the step by step instructions described within the TechNet Wiki a SAN policy is applied that prevents the Windows To Go Workspace from bringing online any internally connected disks from the host system. The result is that you cannot access any data that is stored there.

There are two reasons why this SAN policy should be applied. First it prevents accidental data leakage between Windows To Go and the host system. This makes totally sense because you might run Windows To Go on someone else’s computer and you don’t want your data somehow ending up being stored on their local disk nor does the other person want you to see what they have stored locally. The second reason is that if the internal drive contains a hibernated Windows 8 OS, mounting that drive will lead to loss of the hibernation state which might also result in the loss of any unsaved data there.

Virtual Hard Disk Getting Started Guide

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:55:08 +0000

Microsoft recently published the “Virtual Hard Disk Getting Started Guide”. This paper provides you with all the information you need around VHD.

Download the Guide here

About disk drives

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:57:33 +0000

Today we had a brief discussion about the impact of power cycles on the disk drive lifetime. In searching for some background information on this subject, I found the followiing.

http://www.deq.state.or.us/lq/pubs/factsheets/sw/ComputersMonitors.pdf http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf This is not directly related but found it a nice story so i post it as well. http://storagemojo.com/category/disk/