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+====== Create Bootable USB Drive ======
+I will go straight to the step by step instructions and put the so-called theoretical information towards the end of this page, so that people who are only interested in getting it done can get straight into it :-P
+I have done this a lot of time on Linux, but I recently discovered that I may be able to do it on Windows as well - so I may insert something on that later.
+===== Linux Platform =====
+Tools needed (mostly available by default on all major Linux distro):
+  * fdisk - for partitioning (recommended for USB drives with >4GB storage)
+  * mkfs - for preparing filesystem (go for something specific e.g. mkdosfs for FAT filesystem)
+//in progress...//
+===== Windows Platform =====
+//coming soon...//
+====== Hard Disks and Geometries ======
+  - talk about CHS and LBA
+===== Disk Partitions =====
+Information on MBR and GPT partitioning schemes.
+{{page>notes:csys:x86pc_mbr&noheader}}
+{{page>notes:csys:x86pc_gpt&noheader}}
+===== Using fdisk =====
+Creating 2GB partition at the end of the drive
+  * for 512-bytes sector size, allocate 2x1024x1024x1024/512=4194304 sectors
+    * subtract this value from total sector
+    * make sure the end value of previous partition ends on resulting value
+----
+Case study 1
+For 16GB devices (~14GB+2GB), when making the second partition as active partition, installing syslinux onto that partition is still okay. But when doing similar config on 32GB devices, syslinux fails. Why?