Re: [Hampshire] Bootable USB drives
Just to add another observation. The successful USB stick was made from an image created in 2009 and all the rest are the latest downloads. I am wondering if UEFI is lurking behind all this. Also my "target" install is the Boot Repair disk which I am hoping will solve the boot problem on the old pc. Thanks Roger On 31/05/2016 12:12, Roger Munford via Hampshire wrote: I am trying to replace an old failed Epos system which is no longer made with a second hand pos PC. The new second hand PC had its disk wiped so I had to buy a copy of Microsoft "PosReady2009" which is a version of XP for Epos and is still supported. The new PC has no disk drive and so I have to install from a USB stick. After some time, I managed to create one from the "iso" image with "rufus.exe" and installed the OS. However when powering it up and expecting it to boot from the hard disk, I got a "disk error CTRL ALT DEL to continue". I was able to run CHKDSK from the installation USB which indicated that the drive was OK. The next step was to create a rescue disk and hopefully find the problem. However after trying combinations of several different USB drives, rescue disk images and drive creators (rufus windows, Unetbootin and universal) I have not been able to create another bootable USB - all also fail on another PC. The only successful USB was the first which was in fact brand new and unused. I am not keen on experimenting with this. Any advice would be gratefully received. Regards Roger -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Bootable USB drives
On Tuesday 31 May 2016 12:12:52 Roger Munford via Hampshire wrote: > I am trying to replace an old failed Epos system which is no longer made > with a second hand pos PC. > > The new second hand PC had its disk wiped so I had to buy a copy of > Microsoft "PosReady2009" which is a version of XP for Epos and is still > supported. > > The new PC has no disk drive and so I have to install from a USB stick. > > After some time, I managed to create one from the "iso" image with > "rufus.exe" and installed the OS. However when powering it up and > expecting it to boot from the hard disk, I got a "disk error CTRL ALT > DEL to continue". I was able to run CHKDSK from the installation USB > which indicated that the drive was OK. > > The next step was to create a rescue disk and hopefully find the > problem. However after trying combinations of several different USB > drives, rescue disk images and drive creators (rufus windows, Unetbootin > and universal) I have not been able to create another bootable USB - all > also fail on another PC. The only successful USB was the first which was > in fact brand new and unused. I am not keen on experimenting with this. > > Any advice would be gratefully received. I have had this problem. I finally found that nuking a USB stick with GParted and then repartitioning it, still with GPatrted, and reformatting it, with GParted, with FAT32 worked. So far, at least. Then I could dd it (with Debian) or whatever (with less obliging distros ;-) ) and have a bootable USB stick. Lisi -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
