USB Bootable media error non system disc

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Hi
I have been going round in circles for hours and hours trying to get Disc Director to create a bootable version of Disc Director on a USB stick.
I have tried many different USB stick drives and the effect is the same.

The process looks as though it should be easy.
Start disc director and plug in the usb drive.
Select bootable media builder.. select the usb drive where you want the system files to go, USB in this case.
Launch the program and it copies the files to the drive.
Message at the end is " bootable media has been created sucessfully"
All looks good..
If you use windows explorer to view the files they are all there.
BTW I have left the default profiles when going through the process.
I am using windows 7.

When I reboot and select boot from USB I get an error report that simply says "non system disc remove media" and it does nothing else.

I have to take the USB drive out and reboot the machine. Nothing I am doing is getting this to work. Any ideas on what I am doing wrong?

I have gone into linux and used unetbuntu to create a boot disc for ubuntu on the same disc just to test the drive/s, and this works within minutes.

Help?

Thanks

Fri, 04/29/2011 - 13:00
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Media Builder does not always make the flash drive bootable (it should, but it doesn't).

Try cleaning the flash drive and then try again with creating the media (instructions can be found here). Otherwise, you could try using Grub4DOS and booting the ISO file (instructions can be found here).

Fri, 04/29/2011 - 16:30
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Thanks for the information. I will give it a go later and report back.
I appreciate your help and direction.
Regards
Keith

Sat, 04/30/2011 - 09:42
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Mudcrab thanks for the help.
I have had a play with your suggestion with limited success.
To be honest its taught me a little more than I knew so its worth going through some pain to figure this out.

If I do this with Acronis true image 11 it works fine but the program that I really want to use this with is Acronis Disk Director 11 home and when I use this I get as far as the main boot screen. When I click on Acronis Disk Director 11 it looks as though its going to load but fails.
I get the following error "Unable to load initial ramdisk"

Any thoughts on this one?

Please?

Keith

MudCrab wrote:

Media Builder does not always make the flash drive bootable (it should, but it doesn't).

Try cleaning the flash drive and then try again with creating the media (instructions can be found here). Otherwise, you could try using Grub4DOS and booting the ISO file (instructions can be found here).

Sat, 04/30/2011 - 13:12
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I tired both methods.
The first method gives the same error as using Acronis to build a live USB key. That is it reports non system disk.
Second method works fine with Acronis true image and looks as though it should work on disk director in that its there is the options when the USB key boots. But when you select it the error is that it cannot mount the ramdisk or something like it,
To be honest I have done what I wanted by downloading a live version of gparted but I am still keen to know why Acronis will not do what it should?

Thanks for the help
Keith

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 09:38