On 06/25/2015 11:33 AM, jd1008 wrote:
I bought the usb drive brand new and had not installed anything
on it. Just partitioned it and used it.
So, how could it contain any boot code?
Is this what manufacturers do by default? I had not encountered
this issue you raise before.
Have a look at it:
dd if=/dev/sdb bs=446 count=1 | od -c
Does it have anything other than nul bytes?