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Usb boot drive gives drive error

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I tried to create a bootable usb drive using the Advanced option so I could use it for multiple computers. I hade to install some things while following the wizard and was seemingly able to successfully create the bootable usb drive.

To test it I rebooted my pc and entered the bios to set the usb at the top of bootable drives. I left the bios and the computer tried to boot but I got a "drive error" and it failed to boot. How do I fix this? It's an old 8Gb usb drive but it works fine in windows.

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Sander, welcome to these public User Forums.

If your old 8GB USB drive has been used by other utilities previously, then the first suggestion is to ensure that you have done a full format of that drive then try recreating the rescue media.

You can use the following commands in an Administrator command prompt window:

Preparing USB drive for use by Acronis using Diskpart
diskpart
list disk   (to identify USB drive, i.e. 1)
select disk 1
clean
create partition primary
active
format fs=fat32 quick
assign
exit

Please make sure that you select the correct USB disk above as the clean command does not ask for confirmation and will immediately wipe the selected disk!!

Next, try creating the 'Simple' version of the rescue media on this USB drive and test booting from it on the system where it is created before you try it on any other PC's.