chadorland Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 Hello. I recently purchased Corsair 16 GB Flash Voyager. I am trying to create bootable media from my flash drive, but so far it is not working. I sucessfuly created the bootable media in Acronis Disk Director and set the boot priority in bios to USB HDD first. However, upon reboot, the system is not detecting my flash voyager. I am currently running Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit. Here is the step I took: 1. Format the flash drive in FAT32 from Windows. 2. Ran Acronis Disk Director and created bootable media. Only selected full version of the disk director. 3. Reboot the system 4. In bios, changed boot priority configuration to USB HDD > HDD 5. Reboot the system 6. The system is not detecting the flash drive. Any help would be great. Thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 I don't remember having much luck with Acronis' Boot option. I think I ended up making a bootable USB stick the normal way, and then adding onto it their files manually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chadorland Posted May 25, 2009 Author Share Posted May 25, 2009 How can I make the usb flash drive boot "normal way" in Windows Vista? I am very frustrated with this right now. Whoa... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 http://www.bootdisk.com/pendrive.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthohol Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 http://forum.corsair.com/v3/showthread.php?t=74357 get the win98 boot files from bootdisk.com see post #7 for program but read through the thread. good luck, its easy. jeez Wired, faster than the speed of DSL!! the direct link has 211 downloads so far. glad it helps too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kencl Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 I just had a similar bad episode using an older Acronis product to format the thumb drive. Got it resolved though. See this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chadorland Posted May 25, 2009 Author Share Posted May 25, 2009 But I think your situation is a bit different than mine, kencl. Because I want to make my USB flash drive bootable, not partitioning. Sorry, if I made a novice comment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted May 26, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted May 26, 2009 There is no utility available that will work 100% of the time, the best way is to use a Win9X Boot floppy and set the flash Drive as a USB HDD with no other HDD and use the Win9X Boot Floppy or CD to FDISK and format the Flash Drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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