Sandisk 16GB stick not booting ...

Hi,

got my A150 XP last week, came with bios 3305 installed,so decided to upgrade to 3309 prior to installing Vista.

Found all the info's on this forum (thx!) on how to transfer the installation to the stick and make it bootable.

I got a brand new Sandisk 16GB stick and prepared it as suggested. Tried it a few times (each time from clean format), and even though the stick was regcognized correctly in the F12 bootdevices, it wouldn't boot from it!

I still had a 4GB Transcend stick, so I repeated the procedure and this time I could start the installation without problem from this 4GB stick.

Is there a size-limitation on whether a stick can made bootable of not?

Thanks, Marcher

ps.: I installed Ultimate SP1 and only had to add the SD-card drivers from XP, everything else was correctly recognized.

 

Re: Sandisk 16GB stick not booting ... Fixed

Found this small guide :

http://kurtsh.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!DA410C7F7E038D!1665.entry

1.Format the Apacer Flash Drive
Run CMD.EXE and type the following. Note: This set of commands assumes that the USB flash drive is addressed as "disk 1". you should double check that by doing a list of the disks (type "list disk") before cleaning it. If you have multiple hard drives, like an SDFlash drive or a Multibay drive, you could end up wiping your second drive using this command.
(This was a warning that Josh added to his post along with the following commands that I copied from him, so kudos to Josh)
1. diskpart
2. select disk 1
3. clean
4. create partition primary
5. select partition 1
6. active
7. format fs=fat32
8. assign
9. exit

2. Copy Windows Vista's DVD ROM content to the Flash Drive
And that's it. Boot up the machine, have it boot

Be carefull when selecting the drive/disk!!!!!!!

Did the trick for me, 16GB now booting without a problem.

Marcher