I've got a USB flask drive that I can't seem to boot from. I thought it might be a unetbootin problem (I've occasionally had problems booting from flash drives after using unetbootin) but then I used dd to install the iso file and I get the quick message 'No boot sector on USB device' before the computer jumps right to booting form the HD. The drive works fine as a data storage device. All the files are visible and readable, I just can't boot from it.
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I think it's a formatting problem with this flash drive. I've formatted this drive several times. Do I need to leave some blocks empty at the beginning of the drive? Any thoughts?
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Feb 07, 2019 This video will be helpful if you are dealing with the following issues; ‘Boot device not found’ ‘no bootable device found’ ‘no boot device’ PXE-M0F’ ‘Exitin.
No Boot Sector On Usb Device Windows 7
- Before providing you the solution, I would like to point at the case of this problem. Users face this problem when they try to create a 64-bit bootable USB device from a Windows of 32-bit version. Now, that you know where the problem lies, let’s look out for the solution for this problem.
- This boot menu, like many created before USB drives became cheap and commonplace, does not include an option to boot from a USB drive. A piece of freeware called PLoP Boot Manager solves this problem, offering an image that can burned to a CD or put on a floppy disk, and enables you to boot to a variety of devices, including USB drives.