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1111524	2010-06-19 05:04:00	I am personally disinclined to believe Sandisk's technical support unless they can provide a reason, and I am disinclined to believe you without evidence noting how often you are wrong. Note that all USB flash drives support at least the USB Mass Storage standard - and anything supporting that standard can be booted from if set up correctly. In order to be unbootable, a flash drive would have to*not* support that standard... By bootable I mean from the BIOS. It appears in the BIOS, BUT, you CAN NOT boot from it. I've tried. IT DID NOT WORK. And youre always right. Yer right Whereas, the 1 GB and 2 GB flash drives I have DO work. I can boot from them	Speedy Gonzales (78)
1111525	2010-06-19 05:14:00	By bootable I mean from the BIOS. It appears in the BIOS, BUT, you CAN NOT boot from it. I've tried. IT DID NOT WORK. Whereas, the 1 GB and 2 GB flash drives I have DO work. I can boot from themThat's not a problem with the drive - just because *you* couldn't get it to boot doesn't make it unbootable. The trouble you're having with it is likely to be partly setup-related, and partly an issue with what your BIOS will support. Try setting it up so that the first partition is under 2GB, and formatted as FAT16. Unless your BIOS is seriously funky (or configured strangely), that should boot just fine. And youre always right. Yer rightOf course I'm not always right - I never claimed to be. I do however make sure I understand something fully before offering advice on it - or if I don't understand it, I say so. If I disagree with someone, I will do so based on facts and available evidence rather than heresay and guesses, or information relayed from an unreliable source. If you wish to make such an unlikely claim, it would help to back it up with evidence. "Sandisk said they don't support it, and I couldn't make it work" is not evidence.	Erayd (23)
1111526	2010-06-20 02:26:00	Ok . . I followed this website under method 6 and cannot get it to work . I tried to make a USB bootable using Win7 x64 . . bootdisk . com/pendrive . htm" target="_blank">www . bootdisk . com It doesn't work . It say's something like replace media and press any key . :)	Nomad (952)
1111527	2010-06-20 04:53:00	Did all those commands succeed? I don't have a Win7 handy right now, but I can check that procedure for you later this week. Does this (http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/) result in a system that boots, or do you have issues with that too? Which (BIOS) USB boot settings are you currently using?	Erayd (23)
1111528	2010-06-20 07:06:00	if you are trying to make a bootable USB drive to install Windows 7 AND have a ISO image, not a DVD, then download the Windows7 USB tool (images2.store.microsoft.com) - dead easy.Instructions (arstechnica.com) The other way doing it manually, As per this site (dotnetwizard.net) Once you have prepared the drive, its easier to simply copy all files from W7 DVD to the usb drive. Just make sure you get the correct drive when cleaning -- Its a real "pain" wiping the wrong drive -- I've done it -- OOPS!:crying There is a few apps that can do it from DVD as well Winto Flash (www.downloadsquad.com) should ( never used it though). One I have is from the PC USER Mag - Works a treat as well with DVD's.	wainuitech (129)
1111529	2010-06-20 07:38:00	Did all those commands succeed? Which (BIOS) USB boot settings are you currently using? Yes all the comands succeeded. I have the boot as the 1st being "removable device" and I have disabled all the others. I have a ASUS P5Q mobo. Not tried your link, will give it a shot.	Nomad (952)
1111530	2010-06-20 07:39:00	if you are trying to make a bootable USB drive to install Windows 7 AND have a ISO image, not a DVD, then download the Windows7 USB tool (images2.store.microsoft.com) - dead easy.Instructions (arstechnica.com) The other way doing it manually, As per this site (dotnetwizard.net) Once you have prepared the drive, its easier to simply copy all files from W7 DVD to the usb drive. Just make sure you get the correct drive when cleaning -- Its a real "pain" wiping the wrong drive -- I've done it -- OOPS!:crying There is a few apps that can do it from DVD as well Winto Flash (www.downloadsquad.com) should ( never used it though). One I have is from the PC USER Mag - Works a treat as well with DVD's. Cheers. I had the ISO file but deleted it. I have Win7 thru MS's E Academy. The only copy I have now is on a DVD disc (and that boots).	Nomad (952)
1111531	2010-06-20 10:16:00	I have the boot as the 1st being "removable device" and I have disabled all the others.Which access method is selected? Many BIOSes will give you a choice of floppy, zip or HDD emulation.	Erayd (23)
1111532	2010-06-20 10:24:00	Which access method is selected? Many BIOSes will give you a choice of floppy, zip or HDD emulation . I don't have that option . I only have "boot sequence" which includes up to a list of (4) . And, I have hard drives which is also a sequence, a list of (2) which you can only select the HDDs connected to the system . I will try that link of yours and get back to you . .	Nomad (952)
1111533	2010-06-20 10:42:00	If you don't have that option, then the default will probably be HDD emulation (and you can therefore ignore it).	Erayd (23)
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