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Re: Running Windows from an external USB drive with Windows To Go

miechan — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:51:58 GMT

非常に解り易いです。

posted by miechan

Re: Running Windows from an external USB drive with Windows To Go

firouz — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:04:04 GMT

hi thatis very good

posted by firouz

Re: Running Windows from an external USB drive with Windows To Go

BrandonLive — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 05:59:35 GMT

Want to watch!

posted by BrandonLive

Re: Running Windows from an external USB drive with Windows To Go

BrandonLive — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 03:37:58 GMT

How's about some step by step instructions on how to create the To Go boot media?

posted by BrandonLive

Re: Running Windows from an external USB drive with Windows To Go

BrandonLive — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 08:21:50 GMT

I am searching high and low for instructions to create my own Boot disk.
Pleeease post a link to instructions.

I expected it to be as easy an applying the first index of the Windows 8 Developer build WIM to a diskpart parted, ntfs formated (I assigned Drive letter W) assigned and active partition of a 16 Gig USB 2 memory stick.

Then running bcdboot.exe W:\Windows /s x: /f ALL

If so .. then it's failing for me at the bcdboot command

posted by BrandonLive

Re: Running Windows from an external USB drive with Windows To Go

Jowen Mei — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:53:16 GMT

I dont think its possible to create your own bootdisk. You have to buy a license

posted by Jowen Mei

Re: Running Windows from an external USB drive with Windows To Go

Obiwan007 — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:22:59 GMT

We managed to get the system up and running. But its dead-slow and somehow unstable.

I am using a Kingston 32gb Stick (DI102G2), USB2.

What kind of stick have you used during the session (and distributed to the attendees)???

posted by Obiwan007

Re: Running Windows from an external USB drive with Windows To Go

David Harold Whitney — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:14:16 GMT

I like the faces show on the comments.

posted by David Harold Whitney

Re: Running Windows from an external USB drive with Windows To Go

Steve Silverberg — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:01:35 GMT

Our plan for Windows to Go was to showcase the feature at //Build/ but not enable broad creation of drives. The lack of capble flash drives in the market will lead many to try on sub standard drives and get a sub standard experience. The drive we distributed (Kingston 32GB USB 3.0) drive was specially modified (firmware changes) to work including reporting itself as fixed instead of removable.

We realize many would like to try this feature now, but we (and hardware eco-system) are simply not ready for general consumption yet. We will communicate more information on this in the Beta timeframe.

Thanks for your interest and patience

Steve Silverberg
Lead Program Manager
Windows to Go

posted by Steve Silverberg

Re: Running Windows from an external USB drive with Windows To Go

Robert Wunsch — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:07:30 GMT

Great Session, and a amazing feature. I'm pleased to see that in a live habitat :-)
I'm looking forward to test it and use it as it is available.

posted by Robert Wunsch

Re: Running Windows from an external USB drive with Windows To Go

Ram — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:42:51 GMT

Steve,

Thanks for the great session. I have attended Build conference, but missed your session at the coference.

At Build conference, along with samsung tablet, I have also received a USB drive (32 gb). Is this "Windows To Go" drive? I have tried to boot a XP core i5 laptop with this drive, and it looks like a normal windows 8 installation software drive.

Do I need to make any changes to this USB drive to make this as "Windows to go"?

Thanks in advance.

posted by Ram

Re: Running Windows from an external USB drive with Windows To Go

stevesil — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:45:03 GMT

The drives that were handed out at //Build/ to all attendees contain the windows 8 preview image and tools. This drive, while high quality and large enough, is still not suitable for Windows to Go. Specifically, it does not meet the speed requirements for reads and writes and it reports itself as removable rather than fixed. The Kingston, Super Talent and Western Digital drives referenced in the presentation are really the drives suitable at this time.

steve

posted by stevesil

Re: Running Windows from an external USB drive with Windows To Go

ROFLMAO — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:44:36 GMT

Since most serious computer users have been doing this for years, this is hilarious. If you really want to use windows on USB, just slip it into a VM inside of a Linux USB host OS.

posted by ROFLMAO

Re: Running Windows from an external USB drive with Windows To Go

Ladislav K — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:49:26 GMT

I hope there will be no problém in the final version to run Windows To Go from a USB drive that reports as a removable drive. Windows Developer Preview is not able (or better say willing) to create a pagefile on a removable device and therefore lots of apps are not working including Internet Explorer and Windows Update.

posted by Ladislav K

Re: Running Windows from an external USB drive with Windows To Go

Vladimir — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 04:07:00 GMT

Windows Developer Preview would create a pagefile on any removable drive unless it' s a flash card

posted by Vladimir

Re: Running Windows from an external USB drive with Windows To Go

Vijay Kumar K — Thu, 10 May 2012 06:58:26 GMT

Hi,

Can anyone let me know if Windows To Go will be as slow as I am seeing it. Imaging it took 350 minutes (see the following) and post boot configuration (and run up to desktop ready state) took almost about 15-18 hours. Any ideas on what can improve this time would be great. I am using a HP 32GB USB drive (http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c02972516.pdf).

C:\imagex.exe /apply install.wim 1 f:\

ImageX Tool for Windows
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. All rights reserved.
Version: 6.1.7600.16385

[ 100% ] Applying progress

Successfully applied image.

Total elapsed time: 352 min 10 sec

posted by Vijay Kumar K