usb

[jamer123]

i cant get my usb drive working and i get the vlue screen of death when i do . it restarts my computer and says cant load os from usb drive by then i take the drive out and then restart my computer

[Tyrannicide]

Have you tried reformatting the USB drive?

I know a few years ago my USB drive did something similar, I picked up a program called "testdisk" which allowed me to reformaat it cuzz windows own formatter and even partition magic wouldnt recognize it.

[-Spector-]

Make sure your USB device isn't ahead of your Hard disk in the boot-up sequence in your BIOS.

Not sure why it would be though..

[Goodlookinguy]

Make sure your USB device isn't ahead of your Hard disk in the boot-up sequence in your BIOS.

Not sure why it would be though..


Unless it's plugged in at system startup, it shouldn't be in the BIOS boot sequence.

That's a peculiar problem. Have you tried it on another computer? What is the outcome?

[Draco2003]

My first thought would be that the usb drive is too small... unless he means an external drive? Hell, my computer wouldn't even let me put anything on a "geekstick"...

But yeah, like Goodlookinguy said, test it on another system...

[jamer123]

ive tryed it on a different computer and it worked and its a flash drive not an external harddrive. why in hell would i have a external harddrive

[D3V]

I'd go ahead and try it on another system as my first option, then go from there.

[Goodlookinguy]

ive tryed it on a different computer and it worked and its a flash drive not an external harddrive. why in hell would i have a external harddrive


Okay, this problem may be the result of malconfigured hardware. We had a few USB sockets short the motherboard because a couple of fools didn't hook it up correctly. It's a strange problem and the reason for the short I don't fully understand, but this may be the case.