[GTALUG] Windows eats Fedora installation sticks

[Howard Gibson]

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}Hugh,
    Some sticks out there have a read-only switch.  Maybe you need
one of those!
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 Howard Gibson 
 hgibson at eol.ca 
 http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson 
 On Wed 04/09/24 11:43 AM , "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk"
talk at gtalug.org sent:
 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.
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