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If you enable data deduplication on the Windows Server 2012, it will change certain files (according to the policy) and introduce reparse points.

If the drive containing deduplicated volumes is detached from Windows Server 2012 and attached to another system with another operating system (like Windows 8) the volume is readable, but the files included in the deduplication policy can not be accessed or copied.

One way is to un-optimize the volume using Start-DedupJob -Type Unoptimization powershell command, but my question is, is there a way to make these files accessible in the optimized form at least in Windows 8?

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you can actually install dedup in windows 8.0 or 8.1


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Unfortunately, there is not.



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