Tag: USB flash drive

• Windows to Go: Better (and easier!) in the RTM!

  A couple of months ago I posted an article on Windows To Go (Windows To Go: This is going to be a game changer!) outlining the benefits and use cases for Windows to Go, as well as the steps to build your WTG key.  In the RTM release of Windows 8 it has gotten easier…

  Mitch Garvis

  August 20, 2012

  Bootable USB, MDT, Windows 8, Windows to Go

  ISO image, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, USB, USB flash drive, Windows, Windows 8, Windows To Go

• Making Your Windows 8 ISO work for You

  Tomorrow is the day that a huge number of you will be downloading and installing the final bits (RTM) of Windows 8.  You now have an ISO image of Windows, and you need to install it onto your computer.  In order to do that you have to put it onto media – DVD or in…

  Mitch Garvis

  August 14, 2012

  Bootable USB, USB Key, Windows 8

  Booting, DiskPart, DVD, ISO image, USB, USB flash drive, Windows, Windows 8

• Virtual Hard Disks: Best Practices for dynamic / thin provisioned disks and other stories…

    Virtual environments offer us many new options with regard to storage.  Whether you are using Hyper-V or VMware, a few of the options (and recommendations) are the same, even when the terms are different. One of the options I am often asked about is dynamically expanding hard drives.  MY first reaction is that I…

  Mitch Garvis

  June 21, 2012

  Dynamically Expanding, Raw Device Maps, Storage, Virtualization, Virtualization Storage

  Microsoft, Microsoft Hyper-V, Storage area network, USB, USB flash drive, Virtual disk image, Virtual machine, VMware, VMware vSphere

• Windows To Go: This is going to be a game changer!

  I have said before that I am not sure that Windows 8 is going to have the adoption rates that Windows 7 has had, and that it is more likely that Windows 7 will remain the dominant operating system in the enterprise.  If companies are going to be convinced to switch, it will be by…

  Mitch Garvis

  June 19, 2012

  USB Key, Windows 8, Windows to Go

  Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, USB, USB flash drive, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows To Go