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IT will ask you the next day what you did to thier computer.
From a technical perspective I'm curious - how would they know a drive has been added without physically inspecting the laptop?
Microsoft system administrators have full access to any physical device information, this includes a report on new internal devices or changes. Your company may not be so serious about security, but why on earth are you willing to risk your livelihood on this?
Not just Windows sys admins ... I have this access to MacBooks, tablets, and phones in my company.
Windows, MacOS, Linux, iOS, Android ... If it's in use in an enterprise environment that knows what they're doing, they have full access to the device.
The drive is visible to the OS so if they have any kind of management software in place which looks for hardware changes it will be noticed.
Quite interesting. Thank you for the information!
Intel IME can snitch on this kind of thing. Completely independent of the OS too.
I'm glad you asked, people provided some great answers.
Good rule of thumb is just don't mess with company property at all, cuz they'll know. For example I simply turned a wall TV on one weekend so my skeleton crew had something to do, and I was asked why a few days later. If it's electronic they can track it.