Last year, I had posted an article on how to view SMART data from a disk to determine the health of the disk on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2;   http://blogs.msdn.com/b/san/archive/2011/08/11/have-you-ever-wanted-to-know-if-your-disk-is-going-to-fail-before-it-does.aspx   For Windows...

We hope you had an opportunity to look at the ISO Mounting Windows 8 Blog post . Native support for accessing ISO/VHD files was one of the most requested features for Windows 8. In Windows 8, you can directly mount ISO/VHD files from Windows Explorer and the content is available to you within clicks...

Updated: 7/1/2012 As it can be difficult to locate all of our public content related to Storage and FileSystems on various Microsoft sites for the Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Windows Server “8” beta, I wanted to provide a list of documentation related to the consumer preview. The list below is intended...

For those of you eager for more Windows 8 related news, there is a new blog posting from Thomas Pfenning , at the link below that details improvements in Storage and Continuous Availability for Windows Server 8: http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2011/09/20/storage-and-continuous-availability...