I did run diskpart. However my USB stick does not show up in the diskpart listing. I read on the web that diskpart (at least on 32 bit XP?) does not list removable disks. There is a command list volume and that does show the USB stick. Proceeding with select volume and continuing as suggested eventually I got back to square one (MS USB DVD utility failed to run bootsect). At that point I did not know if the problem was somehow list disk vs list volume. However (after getting the failure message) I managed to get a successful outcome by running bootsect manually; I copied it from the 32 bit win7 iso I downloaded, onto my 32 bit XP system. My goal is a 64 bit win 7 installation for which I have an MS win 7 installation DVD. It will be 2 weeks before I can get back to my NUC project and will find out then is the USB stick I produced will actually work.
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