[Cialug] USB flash drive not bootable

[Nathan C. Smith]

You may just need to get the MS cooties off of it using diskpart.  I've had similar issue and the disk would not work until I used clean under diskpart as described in the link below.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/52129-disk-clean-clean-all-diskpart-command.html


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From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Scott Burklund
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 3:24 PM
To: cialug at cialug.org
Subject: [Cialug] USB flash drive not bootable

I have a Sandisk Cruzer Fit, 16 GB flash drive that recently I was able to boot a Linux distro from.  I tried making it a multi boot drive using xbootvs1.0beta14, YUMI-2.0.0.5, and Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.5.3.  It appears to work each time, but when I try booting I get "missing operating system" error.  Using the same programs and computer but a different flash drive the process is successful and I can boot it on several different laptops.

I have tried formatting it many times with Windows and Linux, both quick and complete formats.  It is formatted Fat32.  I can read/write files to it each time.

I suspect I have a corrupted MBR or partition table.  However, I am at the edge of my knowledge on the subject.  How can I fix this so I can use it as a multi-boot drive?  I have access to both Win 7 and Linux computers.

Thanks in advance for the help.

Scott Burklund
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