1 Topic by Flamefury (edited by Flamefury 2009-08-28 22:09:17)

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Topic: [SOLVED] Cannot boot from USB

Hey all, I ran out of CDs, so I had to use my USB flash drive to run gParted. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, my laptop is unable to read any bootable image file on the USB.

I have formatted my USB and placed only gParted on it. I have tried all three methods on the main website (Tried Live USB Helper, tried Unetbootin and tried the manual method), but all give me the same issue every time I tell the computer to boot from the USB.

My laptop is an Asus G50Vt, running Windows Vista Home Premium x64. My USB is a cruzer micro at 4GB. I don't have the error message memorized, but it's something among the lines of "Enter the device with the bootable file and press any key to continue."

I'm not too tech-savvy, so all help is appreciated!

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot boot from USB

Hello flamefury,
your laptop ought to be able to boot from an USB stick, no question !  So in consequence, your USB stick is not correctly prepared for boot. The latest versions of "GParted" are "isohybrided", which means, they are drive images both for a bootable CDROM and a bootable USB stick. You just have to copy the whole file sector per sector to your stick ... and it starts "GParted". This is possible without using Linux for that purpose, since there is a Windows equivalent for command "dd".
See "Alternative c)" in my documentation here.

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3 Reply by Flamefury (edited by Flamefury 2009-08-28 22:08:57)

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot boot from USB

When I get to the step right after the warning, I get the message:

Error writing file: 5 Access is denied
1+0 records in
0+0 records out


EDIT: Got it work. I thought USB drives were considered removable media, not hard disks, so I just wasn't sorting the boot menu properly. Thank you for your help, regardless.