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Originally Posted by
Furball ZenÂ
This is not the first time ive built a system, it just would not work with USB.
Using FAT32 with 64bit wont work. No matter what i did it kept saying the bootmgr was missing, so either it was missing, or my thumb drive was bad, or it just didnt want to boot from usb flash. But i got to thinking about the CD driver error and wondering if Windows was trying to make it part of the RAID so i moved it to the grey SATA ports and itfired ff first time no complaints. Although, i did have to put the RAID drivers from the Gigabyte CD in during install.
Also, in that list, youre missing the step to make it bootable. I cant access bootdisk.com from work, but its on their first page on how to make a USB Flash look like a floppy and bootable.
Well fella , you had better re-think on what you know as fact .
I have just done this>
Make a bootable USB: 1.Open the Start Menu, type diskpart, press Enter
2.Type list disk
3.Type select disk 4 (or whichever number your USB drive gets)
4.Type clean
5.Type create partition primary
6.Type active
7.Type format quick fs=fat32
8.Type assign
9.Type exit
10.Copy everything from the Windows 7 installation DVD onto the USB key (a simple drag and drop will do; if you have an .iso extract first).
>To the letter , i copied the win64 dvd files over (3.1gb) onto a lexar 4gb usb stick but usb2 unfortunatly , left the stick in and rebooted , went into the bios and picked/set the usb/hdd as a first boot AND rebooted and the windows install came up no problems!
Looks like i gotta go and get a usb3 stick one day as i have noticed with usb3 it certainly is faster , i have a usb3 story station hdd and whilst i was backing up some music , around 1gb of stuff , by the time i had actually found where to look for transfer rates in win 7 , it had already transfered! , usb2 took about 10 minutes or so LOL.
I'm off to post a thanks in the thread where the info came from , i think it was in the windows section .
Added---Found it
http://www.overclock.net/t/1168046/windows7-thumbdrive-bootable-how/0_20Edited by amdgig - 11/25/11 at 11:04pm
