Windows 11 Boot from Storage Spaces Virtual Disk

Neemobeer

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The link clearly states they were not successful which is true. You can not boot from a storage space. That is a software level disk abstraction layer only available from within Windows. The computer firmware would not understand SS nor how to boot from it. It would simply see X number of disks

 

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true but if you notice same thing was achieved in surface pro 2017 [surface pro 5] couldn't find much documentation about this booting concept in surface pro other than this link Boot from Storage Spaces Virtual Disk in Windows 10

i am trying to achieve the same thing in windows 10 system

 

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It is conceivable that since the Surface line is build by Microsoft that they have firmware code that can boot to a storage space. Any other system likely does not.

 

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true ,
So as you said boot would be unable to recognise my storage space, ok we can't keep the entire C drive in storage space but i can keep parts of it like Users,Packages,program files and once loaded it would be able to recognise the storage pool i am thinking somewhere around these lines would this help out or am I going in a wrong direction

 

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Does somebody has or tried to dump UEFI firmware on Surface devices having option to boot from Storage Space? So we could examine which EFI is responsible for booting from Storage Space volume.

 

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Neemobeer said:

It is conceivable that since the Surface line is build by Microsoft that they have firmware code that can boot to a storage space. Any other system likely does not.

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I have never heard of this before and would be shocked if its possible. AFAIK, there is no commercial device that you can even buy that can do this. It is a good idea for hardware or even software that does not exist.

 

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It is possible. Most boards will have a UART port for uploading/dumping firmware, but yes not really commercial products to do that. Firmware may also be encrypted or have other protections to make it tamper resistant.

 

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