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Yeah! I followed a tutorial specifically about these Windows retail USB sticks and had to flash the controller in the stick (a Phison 2251-07, using this program called Phison MPALL). I'm new to these kinds of works anyway so I couldn't have figured it alone.
Oh? Which language would that be, if I may ask? Also, ARM-based windows sound crazy! You got me interested but also I bricked my pc just today so I'll stay away from OS related stuff for a while :p
So I was left thinking about this last night as I struggled to sleep. It probably requires one to enter some sort of ioctl, a flash drive ought to have at least two ioctls, for reading and writing, probably one more for getting meta information about it (block size, number of blocks, etc). And then, there is probably some additional ioctls I wouldn't know about. Of course I could just go look it up, but I like to think about it first, as you may understand.
Bricking your computer is the best moment to get your hands dirty and mess with the disk! I like to keep a spare usb stick with a linux distro that I know for sure that it works. I used to wipe periodically the disk on my little hackerbook to try different OSes, and the great majority of them wouldn't boot after I installed them, either the kernel panicked, or the grub was misconfigured, or something in the root filesystem was wrong... the possibilities were endless! So I kept a spare usb stick with a "recovery" linux system.
The language is Spanish, you may have heard of it. The word in question is "dedear", literally, "to dd (dee dee)", it can be translated with another standard utility, finger(1).