Well a unetbootin created USB drive installer won't boot for me..
I format to fat 32 before. No error message. Just counts down to 10 sec and loops back to countdown. Same thing happens if I select default.I've created working usb bootable windows installations with it at least 3 or 4 times.. i have one for the 32 bit and another for the 64 bit. I never saw any discussions about problems with it... and never had any problem booting up with it and running the install.
I'm wondering if the usb you are using has something on it that unetbootin doesn't remove when it writes? .. like a reserve partition. If it wasn't overwriting your bcd and bootmanager files it still would boot up the old way.
It is writing all the files from the iso ...right? Are you getting any error messages?
I usually format mine first to ntsf ... when I look at it from Fdisk it shows just one healthy, active, primary, partition
I format to fat 32 before. No error message. Just counts down to 10 sec and loops back to countdown. Same thing happens if I select default.
It really isn't an issue. I use unetbootin for Linux distros and sysrescCD.
I have an installer that I created using the Windows CLI, works great.
BTW it looks like unetbootin is writing all the files OK.
Yup, I'm using the latest version for Windows.I just wonder why it doesn't work for you. Did you use the latest version ?
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Did you know you could add an option to boot into the usb from the multi-boot menu and go to the command prompt? That's faster than changing the bios boot sequence and waiting on the disk drive or looking for the boot usb memory stick.
You can even remove the usb device and it will still take you into the repair mode, which you can cancle and go to the command prompt.
It takes 3 bcdedit commands. I wrote it up in my last blog here.
Are there any suggestions for what to do if no DVD and the bios won't recognize a bootable USB?
Wont work. It gives a disk read error when trying to boot.
yes... you may need a higher quality usb drive... some won't boot... i have two that will and two that won't .. they will all store files though.
I have Kingston DataTraveler 100. How I could know which USD-drives can boot and which doesn't?
Ahhhhh - Dont know what went wrong but followed the instructions, got the 4gig stick formated and continued down the instruction at the "select partition 1" then it went tits up - ended up loosing two partitions that had my music, virtual cd'd and iso's on
Running a recovery program now which hopefully will restore my lost stuff.
So be carefull and double check...
Regards
Basher
u dny even have to do this,simply copy and paste all files from ur Windows 7 dvd to your 4 gb usb and click set up.exe windows 7 from your usb,then either upgrade or format from advanced from Windows 7 installer screen
Hi Chaps,
Yes i did try diskpart and am not blaming anyone else just to warn people like myself by jumping before reading and to make sure they know what they are doing. :>
Basher