Reconsider VHDs being displayed by default, due to introduction of Dev Drives

[pethesdaniel]

You mentioned in a previous issue that you consider VHDs detachable media and fair game. See: #2305

However, Windows 11 introduced Dev Drives with ReFS as a way for developers to store their source code and other files.

While source control does help to prevent accidental data loss, I feel like you should reconsider this approach or filter out Dev Drives, because Microsoft seems to consider VHDs a valid form of storage for important data and pushes users to use it by integrating it into the new Settings and Dev Home apps.

[pbatard]

This is interesting. Thanks for the heads up!

I guess the solution to that is pretty straightforward, since Dev Drives appear to always use ReFS for the main partition along with a 16 MB MSR preceding it (though of course we should not rely on the size of the MSR to be constant as it is set at Microsoft's discretion).

So I'm leaning towards filtering out any VHD that has a an MSR + ReFS default partition configuration, since this is not a layout that can be created by Rufus (the goal being to still allow Rufus to create single partition ReFS on VHDs, which it can do, without those being filtered out).

I'll be playing with Dev drives some more and hopefully, I can filter these out by default in the next release of Rufus, while leaving regular VHDs accessible, as they were before.

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