Does auto-lettering work for USB-HDD partitions that have WindowsToGo installed?

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Hard disks

I decided to try what Windows To Go is. Installed Windows 8.1 Enterprise, from it on 2Tb HDD USB 3.0 installed "mobile" Windows. Then I poked the USB HDD into three computers - it booted everywhere, there are no special brakes with USB 3.0 - it's a real joy :)
Then I redid the disk structure. Initially, I had 360Mb FAT32 for the bootloader and everything else - windows. I cut the partition to 100Gb under windows, then made the next partition 100Gb and formatted it in EXT3 (I want to install Debian there) and everything else was left as a 1.6Tb disk for file storage.
At first, I thought that it would be bad if, when a hard drive was inserted, it would show as many as 3 disks in windows, given that the boot partition and the windows partition are not needed at all. But .... it turned out, but windows does not assign a letter to any section. If you get into the administration and assign a letter, then the letter will appear, the section is available, but after a couple of days nothing will be assigned again.
It turns out uncomfortable. Came to someone connected hard and start crawling in the control panel, and not just copy the information and leave. Tried on Windows 7/8 x32/x64.
Who has any thoughts on this?
The reaction of the system is incomprehensible - maybe you don’t like the fact that the first partition is bootable, active, and is there also a bootloader found there? But I can't get rid of this section =)

Answer 1

I myself answered this question in an article on Habré .