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Bootable Media Problem

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Hello,

 

  I am trying to create a bootable media, i have successfully created a USB bootable media but when i choose my sandisk 16 GB from boot menu it just hangs and nothing happens.

 

 I then thought i would be clever and try to burn a bootable media to a Verbatim DVD-R but it just threw up some error messages and would not burn to disk.

 

Has anyone else encountered the problem? And if so do you have any fixes?

 

Thanks

 

Andrew

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Andrew, welcome to these public User Forums.

I am not aware of any general issues with creating USB rescue media though there are reports here where some USB sticks give issues but others will work fine.

If your USB stick has been used for other purposes previously, then I would suggest doing a full format of the stick.  You can use the following commands run from an Administrator level command prompt.

diskpart
list disk   (to identify USB drive, i.e. 1)
select disk 1
clean
create partition primary
active
format fs=fat32 quick
assign
exit

The above will completely wipe any previous data from the USB drive so please ensure you have made copies of any data you wish to keep before doing this.