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Default OT - booting XP from USB

On 14/09/2011 17:19, Andy Burns wrote:
Another Dave wrote:

AIUI, you can only boot via USB using a FAT32 file system, ie NOT ntfs.


I can't see any reason why it would matter, other than NTFS having a
very high overhead on small sized drives.

What I mean is that all the BIOSs that I've come across can only boot
from FAT file systems via USB.

Another Dave