On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:48:00PM +0100, Sean DALY wrote: > I have been doing FAT16 exclusively until today, but (if i'm not > confused) the latest SoaS-2 which image failed to boot my XOs when > formatted FAT16 succeeded when formatted FAT32. > > By the way when using the fedora liveusb-creator v3.6.3 (previous revs > fail) on WinXP i found that formatting the stick immediately prior to > "burning" it seemed to work better...
It's a lot better not to re-format *at all* USB sticks one gets if one can help it: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_Damage_a_FLASH_Storage_Device http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/02/20/aligning-filesystems-to-an-ssds-erase-block-size/ Martin
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