Understanding Windows To Go

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1 Understanding Windows To Go By Simon Huang Technical Product Manager Super Talent Technology September, 2012 Release 1.21

2 Legal Disclaimer INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH SUPER TALENT PRODUCTS. NO LICENSE, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, BY ESTOPPEL OR OTHERWISE, TO ANY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IS GRANTED BY THIS DOCUMENT. EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUPER TALENT'S TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE FOR SUCH PRODUCTS, SUPER TALENT ASSUMES NO LIABILITY WHATSOEVER, AND SUPER TALENT DISCLAIMS ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY, RELATING TO SALE AND/OR USE OF SUPER TALENT PRODUCTS INCLUDING LIABILITY OR WARRANTIES RELATING TO FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, MERCHANTABILITY, OR INFRINGEMENT OF ANY PATENT, COPYRIGHT OR OTHER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHT. Super Talent may make changes to specifications and product descriptions at any time, without notice. Super Talent may have patents or pending patent applications, trademarks, copyrights, or other intellectual property rights that relate to the presented subject matter. The furnishing of documents and other materials and information does not provide any license, express or implied, by estoppel or otherwise, to any such patents, trademarks, copyrights, or other intellectual property rights. Designers must not rely on the absence or characteristics of any features or instructions marked reserved or undefined. Super Talent reserves these for future definition and shall have no responsibility whatsoever for conflicts or incompatibilities arising from future changes to them. Contact your local Super Talent sales office or your distributor to obtain the latest specifications and before placing your product order. Copies of documents which have an order number and are referenced in this document, or other Super Talent literature may be obtained by visiting Super Talent's website at Super Talent is a trademark or registered trademark of Super Talent or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others

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4 Windows To Go enables enterprises to provision a full corporate environment that people can boot and run from on multiple computers on a USB drive.

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13 System Partition - Boot Files Operating System Partition - Apps, Data, Settings

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15 Requirements: ISO image of Windows 8 Consumer Preview DNJXJ-7XBW8-2378T-X22TX-BKG7J. Windows Automated Installation Kit 20

16 wintogo install.wim wintogo imagex.exe wintogo

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19 Windows 8 Windows 7 d: d: d: d: And that s it.

20 Windows logo key+w options Save Changes Windows To Go startup Yes F12, F2, F1, Esc Then change the boot order to boot from USB drives first. often F12

21 USB 3.0 System Requirements Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7/8 Mac OS X v10.4 and Up (Not for Windows To Go) USB 2.0 or 3.0 Equipped System For USB 3.0 Speed, System Must Support USB 3.0 USB 3.0 Host Controller(NEC/Renesas/ASMedia ) or Intel IVY bridge (Z75/Z77)

22 Microsoft Supertalent RC8

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24 Internal disks are offline. Trusted Platform Module (TPM) BitLocker Hibernate is disabled by default.

25 Windows Recovery Environment isn t available. Push Button Reset isn t available. Store is disabled by default.

26 boot order X64

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35 Microsoft Certified for Windows to Go USB 3.0 Drive Fastest Drive Most Reliable SMART Command Enabled

36 The RC8 is a full-featured SSD SandForce SSD processor Full 8-channels of flash SandForce SF-1222 processor Performance Reliability Thermal Characteristics USB 3.0 to SATA Bridge Virtually Lossless Conversion Enables SATA command pass through SMART Command Support USB 3.0 Solid-State Disk

37 As a SandForce based SSD, you will notice that the RC8 is a bit different from any flash drive you have used in the past. Mounts Different Fixed Disk, non-removable Required for Windows To Go Enables Partitioning Strange Format Capacities 32GB reports 23.9GB usable 64GB reports 51GB usable 128GB reports 100GB usable

38 USB 3.0 Drive RC8 Block Diagram USB 3.0 Conn. USB 3.0 PHY USB 3.0 to SATA Bridge USB 2.0 PHY ASMedia ASM-1051 SATA I/F SATA 2 Controller SandForce SF-1222 Flash I/F Flash 1 Flash n Up to 8 channels

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40 4K Random 202 MB/s Reads 240 MB/s Writes Sequential Scores 271 MB/s Reads 241 MB/s Writes

41 SMART Command DATA Total Hours Used Power On Count Total Data Read Total Data Written Relative Health of the drive Current and Max Temperature And much more