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Microsoft Corporation

David J Steeves

David Abzarian

Kim Cameron

Todd L Carpenter

Yordan Ivanov Rouskov

Ariel Nicolas Gordon

Krishna C Vitaldevara

David Jay Foster

Wei-Quiang Michael Guo

Quentin S Miller

Jason L Cohen

Ryan M Burkhardt

Pui-Yin Winfred Wong

Gregory D Hartrell

Rajesh Viswanathan

Mark Myers

Vikas Rajvanshy

Sean Christian Wohlgemuth

Tarek Bahaa El-Din Mahmoud Kamel

Rammohan Nagasubramani

Vikrant Minhas

Luke T Abrams

Pui-Yin Wong

Orville C Mcdonald

Described is a technology by which a single physical storage device such as a USB flash memory device is able to boot different computing devices via corresponding different operating systems. The storage device includes a selection mechanism that determines which virtual disk (corresponding to a LUN) is seen by the host as the currently active LUN having sector, and therefore is the boot disk. The selection mechanism also may select which (if any) other LUNs are visible to the host. The selection mechanism and accompanying indicator may be operated when the storage device is disconnected, e.g., via manual switches and/or LEDs, buttons and/or a display (e.g., via internal power). Also described is allowing each LUN to have a user-friendly name.

Offline device-side logical unit number controller

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David J Steeves