say, in theory, you had a windows based way to capture and apply custom .wims without a WDS from just a flash drive. This would be a independent bootable thumb drive that one could carry into a location and use to apply updated images to VLK based systems that had no network support.
under normal circumstances this would work so long as the MBR was left in place right? you would boot and put in the product key, done
Well, now lets assume that the drive is say, oh, I dunno, a Transcend 32GB SSD with known issues of older Firmware putting the drive to sleep during production and thus needed a firmware update....in theory, of course......
And when you updated said firmware to the latest version, it completely wiped the drive back to an unallocated state. of course you could use the Windows based solution to bring the drive back up to a...