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There is quite a story behind that driver that comes from the printer. Years ago, I use to work for that company that started in a little garage in Palo Alto. This story was going around the company. It seems one of the adversaries of the U.S. in the middle east had a nuclear lab equipped with HP printers. Well some organization (CIA?) managed to add a virus to the nuke labs printer firmware. The story was, the middle east nuke lab would clean the virus from their computers, but it kept coming back from somewhere (the printers), messing up their work.
Last edited by Antilope; 27 Jul 2015 at 09:23.
I am sticking to my thoroughly stupid HP Deskjet 930, bought one new got two more as spares when they were replaced and ditched by a former employer. They are USB and parallel and I use USB.
I just gave printer driver as an example. Stuff like Zipdrive could do the same thing now tnat huge memory can be stuck on small chips. Especially if it is a Windows only hw then it would only need a 32 and 64 bit version on chip. Similar to boot strapping from BIOS disk support to loaded driver, have minimal necessary device support needed to copy the Windows or whatever off the device then get the sophisticated driver off the media in the device.
what happens when the usb stick screws up and you have to format it you will lose the operating system on it.
The Windows 7 DVD download Tool was my go to tool at one time. If memory serves me though, it formats in NTFS, that doesn't work so well for UEFI installs on some devices. These days I just use diskpart, works for Windows 7, 8.1 and 10. The one drive is good for legacy and UEFI installs too.