can't boot from usb :(

233 · 17 Jul 2014 at 12:28

hi guys looking for some advice,

doing a hdd replacement in my sons rig

its a q9450 on a p35c ds3r mobo 4 gig ram and a 6970

now I've got a windows 8 boot usb which i know works fine(just booted 2 other rigs from it quite happily

the usb shows up in windows on my boys rig but won't boot from it.

i've tried different usb ports to no avail. and its formatted in fat 32

any suggestions ?

Little_Crow · 17 Jul 2014 at 12:38

Have you checked the boot order in the BIOS?

233 · 17 Jul 2014 at 12:41

yup

giving me an error about invalid partition tables

233 · 17 Jul 2014 at 12:59

strange one

worked fine in 2 other rigs,

reformatted and put the exact same files back on the usb but with a ntfs format ant its booting fine now

strange indeed