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Creating a bootable rescue media USB drive

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I think I must be missing something obvious.

I have two "fat32" formatted USB sticks. When I try to use the recovery media builder, I either end up with a drive that is not bootable (I get "non-system disk, press any key...") or a drive that might be bootable, but shows nothing on screen when it boots a laptop.

Does the USB drive have to be preformatted in a specific way to make it usable with the Recovery Media creator application? (This is using build 6868).

Thanks!

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Some users have some issues with some flash drives...
Try this: plug your drive in the computer, launch an elevated command prompt (ie ran as administrator), type:
- diskpart
- list disk
- select disk X, where X the *number* of your flash drive. Don't pick the wrong one!
- clean (this will erase everything on the selected disk)
Try to create the bootable flash drive again.

If this doesn't work, http://kb.acronis.com/content/1526

My problem (I think) was that I make my bootable disks using VMWare Fusion on my Mac. I erased the USB drive on the *mac side* and then popped it into Fusion to make the bootable disk -- that's what failed.

I tried a second time by only mounting/erasing the USB drive *within Fusion* -- and then redoing the bootable media run. The second time -- it worked.

- Steve