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The idea for this article came to mind while I was writing my recent post about Windows To Go, which outlines how you can boot into a fully operational Windows 8 work environment from a USB drive. So I decided to share the specific steps with you on how to boot a virtual machine from a USB drive in your own environment. Although I’m writing this from the standpoint of using a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V environment, this also works with Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2.
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Next to that, we select Physical Hard Disk, which shows our offline disk of 32Gb in size.
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With this configuration, you have full access to the local disk, allowing you to copy over data to and from it, run antivirus scans against the files on that disk, or even perform full recovery operations if needed.
As always, if you have any questions or comments about this article, please email me.
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