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    Trouble booting from usb device...

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by Raven16, Sep 10, 2010.

  1. Raven16

    Raven16 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Wondering if anyone has had this issue. I've tried at least 3 different usb flash drives now, all have been made bootable with the hp utility, I've even seen the windows 98 screen pop up once for me and the system rebooted immedately after. Once it fails it gives the old invalid system disk error and then boots from the hard drive to Windows 7. This is blowing my mind. lol. Any suggestions?
     
    Raven16, Sep 10, 2010
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    lolwut? That's a new one on me. I would try the bootdrive in another machine to verify there isn't a problem there.
     
    Chastity, Sep 11, 2010
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    Hey Chas,
    Ya the thing ended up working eventually, but it literally took about an hour for it to work. I have no idea what happened, but ya... very strange indeed.
     
    Raven16, Sep 17, 2010
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    If you didn't do anything to resolve the problem and it just all of the sudden "started working", I would definitely NOT flash my BIOS or vBIOS from that flash drive. That thing is flaky.
     
    Jody, Sep 17, 2010
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