[GTALUG] Windows eats Fedora installation sticks

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

Old news, I know.  But I've been burned again.

A Fedora installation USB stick, prepared by dd-ing the .iso file onto the 
raw stick works fine.

But if you have that stick in the computer, and Windows sees it, it will 
drop a few bytes on it.  The result is that the stick cannot be used to 
boot Fedora (until you rewrite it).  Sheesh.

Why did it happen to me, when I know of the problem?  To run the stick, 
during power on, I have to hit a key to get into the 
choose-a-device-to-boot-from menu.  It's a race, and sometimes I lose.