I want to repartition my drive so I can install windows 7 RC1 on it but can't get Gparted boot cd to work. I built a new pc in January of this year (specs below) and most boot cds are not working properly on it. Maybe you should make the USB stick bootable manually using these instructions, then manually copy the.
I've only just bought both of them apparently brand new from eBay. It seems the ACRONIS Boot Loader wont entertain NTFS.Īll this is separate to the fact that the 32GB stick isn't even seen by the laptop boot menu as a kingston stick whereas the 16GB stick is. tib backup file, but the USB then became non-bootable.
I tried making them FAT32, making the stick bootable via Acronis & then converting the system to NTFS & putting on the. This isn't a problem as Acronis will do this perfectly fine. If it's NTFS then it says it needs to be FAT32.Īs a result, i have to break/split the backup into 4GB sections. What i want to achieve: Having the USB stick bootable AND having the backup file on there too, so that it's an all-in-one.Īcronis wont make the USB stick (either 16GB/32GB) bootable if it's in NTFS format. I select it all the same & it just returns me back to the exact same screen. I do the same for the 32GB stick & when at the boot menu it only says "USB HDD: USB Disk". JUST bootable.Ĭurrently at the boot screen with the 16GB USB stick & it's listed as "USB HDD: Kingston DT 101 G2" & when i select it i get "Starting Acronis Loader" & all is well. I've just formatted both USB sticks as i type this & made them both bootable with Acronis but put no backup file on there. Not sure if it means anything or whether it's just the design - but the black 16GB stick has no light when plugged in, the 32GB purple stick lights up. It keeps sending me back to the boot media page (where i can select CD ROM drive, HDD, USB stick). Acronis says it makes it bootable, but when i restart the laptop & then choose to boot to the USB stick - it doesn't. So just now i decided to make the USB stick bootable to see if it would do this as a minimum. It keeps erroring with 5 minutes to go, 20 minutes to go etc. It wont install the backup to the USB stick at all. So i bought a new 32GB Kingston DataTraveler 101 USB stick, thinking this would solve the problem. tib backup on there) then the USB stick would boot fine - no problems. KEY: If i JUST made the USB stick bootable (& put no. I used Acronis True Image Home 2011 to make it bootable & to install the backup on it.ĭespite the fact that the backup & boot setting was less than 16GB, in fact it's only about 14GB, it wouldn't install to this USB stick as it kept running out of space. So i had a Kingston DataTraveler 101 16GB USB stick.
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