Contents ======= Windows To Go Required Files/Tools Walkthroughs Walkthrough 1 - Part 1 Walkthrough 1 - Part 2 Walkthrough 1 - Part 3 Walkthrough 2 - Part 1 Walkthrough 2 - Part 2 Walkthrough 2 - Part 3 Walkthrough 3 - Part 1 Walkthrough 3 - Part 2 Complete Windows setup Activation Appendices ========= bootmenupolicy DiskMgmt Edit UEFI entry Clone Win2Go Miscellaneous

Walkthrough 1

Multiboot setup with 32-bit and 64-bit Windows To Go - with each operating system running from a self contained partition. The disk is configured as MBR type with the boot files on an active FAT32 partition. Windows To Go on this system can be booted on systems with UEFI and BIOS firmware.

Part 1 - DiskPart

Part 2 - Install 64-bit Windows To Go

1] Devices/paths
2] Apply Windows Image (DISM)
3] Create boot files (bcdboot)
4] SANPolicy
5] bootmenupolicy / Edit boot menu entry

Part 3 - Install 32-bit Windows To Go

1] Devices/paths
2] Apply Windows Image (DISM)
3] Create boot files (bcdboot)
4] SANPolicy
5] bootmenupolicy / Edit boot menu entry

Walkthrough 2

Install Windows To Go in a virtual hard disk (.vhd). The disk is configured as MBR type with the boot files on an active FAT32 partition and the .vhd files on a secondary partition. Windows To Go on this system can be booted on systems with UEFI and BIOS firmware.

Part 1 - DiskPart

Part 2 - DiskPart create .vhd

Part 3 - Install 64-bit Windows To Go to .vhd

1] Devices/paths
2] Apply Windows Image (DISM)
3] Create boot files (bcdboot)
4] SANPolicy
5] bootmenupolicy / Edit boot menu entry
6] Unmount .vhd

Walkthrough 3

Install Windows To Go in a virtual hard disk (.vhd) - WIMBoot setup. The disk is configured as MBR type with the boot files on an active FAT32 partition. Windows To Go on this system can be booted on systems with UEFI and BIOS firmware.

WIMBoot (Windows Image File Bot) was introduced in Windows 8.1 Update.

"...A WimBoot deployment boots and runs Windows directly out of a compressed Windows Image File (WIM)...The result is a significant reduction in the disk space required to install Windows..." (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us....)

Part 1 - DiskPart create .vhd

Part 2 - Install 64-bit Windows To Go to .vhd

1] Devices/paths
2] wimboot
3] Apply Windows Image (DISM)
4] Create boot files (bcdboot)
5] SANPolicy
6] bootmenupolicy / Edit boot menu entry
7] Unmount .vhd

Screenshot of systemdrive properties - Windows 8.1 WIMBoot. Windows To Go is installed in a 15GB .vhd file. Used space is less than 1.3GB, however the .wim file on the backing disk is an additional 4GB (approximate size)

Document date - 6^th July 2022