• Bootable Sandisk Cruzer
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I created a live boot disk on my sixteen gigabyte Sandisk Cruzer, newly purchased. Iso was placed on drive, popped it into my computer, selected it from my boot menu. However, my computer hangs on a black screen, even left alone for an hour, it still does not boot. I've experienced this same problem with another SanDisk Cruzer, is something preventing it from booting?
You can't just copy the iso over and expect it to work. The easiest way is to use a program like unetbootin: [url]http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/[/url]
Well, of course you wouldn't just copy/paste the iso, I know that much. What I did was use a live boot program to install a Fedora distro. I've done this before on other USB drives, but for some reason SanDisk drives are very tempermental and do not want to boot from disc properly. My computer just hangs after I've selected the drive from the boot menu. I'm pretty sure that SanDisk puts some sort of hidden software on all their drives, preventing it from booting. Is there anyway to fix this? I will probably return it to Amazon, but any help would be appreciated, because I would rather not deal with their return policy.
[QUOTE=Rubber Duck;28621701]Well, of course you wouldn't just copy/paste the iso, I know that much. What I did was use a live boot program to install a Fedora distro. I've done this before on other USB drives, but for some reason SanDisk drives are very tempermental and do not want to boot from disc properly. My computer just hangs after I've selected the drive from the boot menu. [b]I'm pretty sure that SanDisk puts some sort of hidden software on all their drives, preventing it from booting.[/b] Is there anyway to fix this? I will probably return it to Amazon, but any help would be appreciated, because I would rather not deal with their return policy.[/QUOTE] Proof? Mines and 3 friends cruzers have absolutely no problem booting.
Fedora uses isolinux, and can have issues with some live boot programs. Did you try their one found here: [url]https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/[/url] ? Also, if that's not it, try using another iso. Sometimes the iso can get corrupted.
I'm doing exactly what I did for my old USB drive, which is 4 GB, with my 16 GB SanDisk. Format it to Fat32, install the iso with a live boot program which works just fine, I see no reason why it doesn't work with the SanDisk. [editline]15th March 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=ASmellyOgre;28621892]Fedora uses isolinux, and can have issues with some live boot programs. Did you try their one found here: [url]https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/[/url] ? Also, if that's not it, try using another iso. Sometimes the iso can get corrupted.[/QUOTE]\ Yeah, I used that exact program, and used a fresh ISO, worked fine on my other drive.
I've tried replacing the U3's ISO with a linux ISO and booting from the ISO using the U3's CD-rom emulator, but it doesn't work... is there any reason why?
I tried contacting SanDisk, a help desk employee said that the new SanDisk drives don't support Linux. Which is a load of crap, considering that EVERY other usb drive can run Linux perfectly through live boot.
[QUOTE=Rubber Duck;28628309]I tried contacting SanDisk, a help desk employee said that the new SanDisk drives don't support Linux. Which is a load of crap, considering that EVERY other usb drive can run Linux perfectly through live boot.[/QUOTE] Well I was trying to boot the ISO from the CD emulator on the drive... but using unetbootin on my U3 drive works just fine. It sounds like they just fed you a bullshit answer to get rid of you. :/
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