[syslinux] Windows Dos testing

[Geert Stappers]

On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 07:04:18PM -0500, Nazo wrote:
> On 8/14/05, Jeff Sadowski <jeff_sadowski at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Well I'll need to do more experiments first.
> > I need to go out and find fdisk for windows.
> > Ok like I said linux worked great and I think I'll
> > just create a bootable cd to create a usb bootable
> > sticks.(to give to windows users). Here is what I did
> > for testing in windows. I started with zeroing out the
> > flash drive in linux so that I knew I started from
> > ground zero ie:
> > "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1024 count=1000"
> > then I put the usb stick in a windows machine.
> > I let windows format the disk. (bad idea)
> > It didn't partition the disk at all.(didn't know till
> > I looked at it in linux) And then I used syslinux on
> > it with the -m flag and tried to boot it. It didn't
> > work. I was looking for a full proof method in windows
> > but windows needs work itself. So I'll get back to you
> > guys on this when I have some time to experiment.
>
> Just point your windows users to this tool: 
> http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/hpcpqdt/us/download/20306.html
> Officially you're only supposed to use it if you have an HP usb
> storage device.  Apparently it's not smart enough to check if you
> accidentally put in, oh, say a PNY drive.  ^_^

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Cheers
Geert Stappers

P.S.
My apology to those who are unhappy with a complete resend.