Here is a curated list of the most helpful technical documents and resources regarding the USB Mass Storage Device Driver in Windows 8.1.
If you need a quick summary for a report or project, here is how the stack functions in Windows 8.1:
If the official Microsoft documentation is too dry, I recommend searching for . OSR provides "papers" and articles written by driver developers that are often easier to digest than the official documentation, specifically regarding how the IRP (I/O Request Packets) travel down the stack in Windows 8.1.