Bootable USB drive won't work :(

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  1. harvardja

    harvardja Regular member

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    I used the HP bootable USB drive utility to format my 4 gig USB drive to FAT format, but when i restart my computer and try to boot from it, it won't work!

    it just gives me an error message, i forgot what, but it says it won't boot.

    :(

    what am i doing wrong?

    p.s. i tried formatting the disk many times, in NAT, FAT, FAT32, didn't work. I tried using the HP bootable usb drive utility to format at FAT while checked the "dos floppy," using the files in the "BootFiles" folder in leerage's profile. that didn't work either.

    what can i do :(
     
    harvardja, Sep 15, 2009
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  2. fl3x7

    fl3x7 Member

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    Need to know the exact message mate :) .. you havent mentioned if you set the boot priority in the bios?

    fat32 should work if your doing everything else correctly. Id recommend using iprep. That has a format utility with it and its easy enough to use.

    good luck



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    Also along w/setting boot priority make sure you have usb enabled in your bios to be sure your usb ports are getting power while booting.
     
    db5304, Sep 15, 2009
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  4. dawnid

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    4 Gb is too big for FAT

    from microsoft:
    Microsoft MS-DOS versions 4.0 and later allow FDISK to partition hard disks up to 4 gigabytes (GB) in size. However, the MS-DOS file allocation table (FAT) file system can support only 2 GB per partition. Because of this fact, a hard disk between 2 and 4 GB in size must be broken down into multiple partitions, each of which does not exceed 2 GB.
    The 2-GB partition limit is imposed by the maximum number of clusters and the largest cluster size supported by the FAT file system. The FAT file system is limited to 65,525 clusters. The size of a cluster must be a power of 2 and less than 65,536 bytes--this results in a maximum cluster size of 32,768 bytes (32K). Multiplying the maximum number of clusters (65,525) by the maximum cluster size (32,768) equals 2 GB
     
    dawnid, Sep 16, 2009
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  5. durden267

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    I have a 500GB external HD that i use with my 360 and managed to format it using a program called SwissKnife. Was a bit of a fiddle on but it worked in the end. Google it and you should find it.

    Hope it helps
     
    durden267, Sep 17, 2009
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    swissknife is for fat32 or ntfs.
     
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    The fat32 restriction used to apply. With newer software it is possible to format larger drives with the fat32 file system so that should't be an issue :)

    hope this helps

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    fl3x7, Sep 19, 2009
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  8. harvardja

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    man

    yea i finally got a 2 gig usb drive and it worked fine
     
    harvardja, Oct 1, 2009
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