Problem with USB boot disk??
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Hello,
I’ve created a Macrium rescue boot USB stick for imaging with.
The stick has a 1GB FAT32 partition and a 100GB NTFS storage partition.
All devices boot up off the stick, but on older laptops, the device doesn’t see the 100GB partition, but on newer devices it does.
On the older laptops, I’ve tried with UEFI and Legacy set, but that made no difference.
The stick is setup using MBR not GPT.
What am I missing here???
Thanks for any help.
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@siringo said in Problem with USB boot disk??:
The stick has a 1GB FAT32 partition and a 100GB NTFS storage partition.
Be careful when using sticks larger than 32 GB when you want them as a boot device, or to be recognized in your BIOS / UEFI firmware.
I am often unable to boot from a >32GB usb or even read from it on older devices because the bios can't handle it.
This is especially the case when you are using UEFI mode, which needs to be formatted with FAT32.
Also, Fat32 booted OSes may not be able to read the NTFS permissions on the NTFS partition under some BIOS. Make sure your NTFS partition is set for everyone in security with no other SID (users) listed.
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@jasgot Thanks for the help buddy. What you mention sounds exactly like what is happening.
I think this problem may be resolved then, thanks for your help.
