Hi - I was trying to boot XP installer from my stick and wrote the XP bootsect onto it. Even after formatting stick, it remains to block successful booting of Win7 now.
Should I diskpart to clean all the stick? Or is there a command to reverse XP bootsect?
Thanks.
Previously I had no bootsect on this stick. It was able to boot simply by formatting primary and placing the 7 install files into the root.
I would like to get it back to this state. Do you think DISKPART "clean all" command will do it?
If not, any way to reverse the XP bootsecting if I don't need 7's to boot?
I don't know, maybe Windows 7 automatically writes its own boot sector to the disk when you do a full format.
I do suspect that a clean will wipe it. Then maybe a format will work.
Have you tried overwriting the boot sector with 7's though?
I know this is obvious, but everyone makes stupid mistakes. You are formatting with NTFS, right?
No, the native formatting for the stick is FAT32 so I have stuck with that all along (as I recall) and it has worked and booted fine.
Is there a reason that I should use NTFS instead, other than that it is preferred?
I guess I always assumed the drive needed to be formatted with NTFS.
That's what I have always done. I guess I never tried FAT32.
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