Cannot boot from USB drive

[Murilo_A]

For some reason my DT101 G2 16GB is not working to boot from it. Files don't seen to be corrupting, but I can't boot from it for some reason

 

Already tried:

Used cmd to make the USB drive bootable and copied the files, PC stays with a underscore blinking

Used Microsoft's official tool to make it bootable, gave me some kind of error saying that it cannot make the USB drive bootable

Used a program to put Ubuntu into the drive, didn't got any errors, but still not booting

[Slottr]

Does the motherboard boot order have the USB as priority?

[Murilo_A]

Just now, Slottr said:

Does the motherboard boot order have the USB as priority?

Yes, already formatted this PC from a USB drive and it worked fine, also checked and the USB drive is the 1st boot

[Creed1]

2 minutes ago, Murilo_A said:

Yes, already formatted this PC from a USB drive and it worked fine, also checked and the USB drive is the 1st boot

Is it an encrypted drive? Kingston makes drives that can't be bootable.

[Murilo_A]

Just now, CmzPlusHardware said:

Is it an encrypted drive? Kingston makes drives that can't be bootable.

No, always used this drive for installing Windows, never had any problems

[Thededpixel]

use rufus 2.0 to create a bootable pen drive

[Murilo_A]

Just now, Thededpixel said:

use rufus 2.0 to create a bootable pen drive

Already tried 3 solutions that I know that work fine, why would that work differently?

[Creed1]

Just now, Murilo_A said:

Already tried 3 solutions that I know that work fine, why would that work differently?

I believe it generates special boot files of some sort.

[Murilo_A]

Just now, CmzPlusHardware said:

I believe it generates special boot files of some sort.

I'll try it then

[Creed1]

2 minutes ago, CmzPlusHardware said:

I believe it generates special boot files of some sort.

Also are you creating the drive in a uefi format or legacy?

[Murilo_A]

1 minute ago, CmzPlusHardware said:

Also are you creating the drive in a uefi format or legacy?

Legacy

[Creed1]

25 minutes ago, Murilo_A said:

Legacy

Alright. Just make sure your BIOS is set to legacy mode. 

[Murilo_A]

1 minute ago, CmzPlusHardware said:

Alright. Just make sure your BIOS is set to legacy mode. 

It's a very old system, I don't think it supports UEFI, but I'll double check

[xGGAx]

did you try the usb ports on the back? I have seen computers not booting from usb when using the front ports.

[Murilo_A]

Just now, xGGAx said:

did you try the usb ports on the back? I have seen computers not booting from usb when using the front ports.

Yes, I'm using the back ones

[xGGAx]

alright then, how old is your system? some computers from the win xp era dont support usb boot even if the option is present in bios.

[Murilo_A]

1 minute ago, xGGAx said:

alright then, how old is your system? some computers from the win xp era dont support usb boot even if the option is present in bios.

Not sure, it's not mine, but it's probably about 8-10years, but yeah it supports USB boot, on the BIOS I can see the USB drive listed in boot priority, and I already boot from a USB drive in this PC

[xGGAx]

In that case your usb drive might be damaged/faulty . We have a few of those at work and they work just fine with ubuntu installed on them.

[Murilo_A]

7 minutes ago, xGGAx said:

In that case your usb drive might be damaged/faulty . We have a few of those at work and they work just fine with ubuntu installed on them.

Files aren't getting corrupted or anything like that, only for boot that it isn't working

[Murilo_A]

2 hours ago, Thededpixel said:

use rufus 2.0 to create a bootable pen drive

 

2 hours ago, CmzPlusHardware said:

I believe it generates special boot files of some sort.

 

33 minutes ago, xGGAx said:

In that case your usb drive might be damaged/faulty . We have a few of those at work and they work just fine with ubuntu installed on them.

With the Rufus 2.0, I ran the errors check and it didn't found anything, I got it to boot, but it's painfully slow, 5+ minutes and it still didn't passed the "Windows is loading files..." part

[Murilo_A]

Seems like it was just that part that was slow, things look normal now, thanks guys

Edit: Forgot to mention

 

@xGGAx @CmzPlusHardware @Thededpixel