[Bradford] USB Flash Drives for LiveUSB usage

[Dick Thomas]

yup, dd them before i used them and tried gpt and dos partition tables

On 20 November 2012 22:29, Nick Rhodes <nick at ngrhodes.co.uk> wrote:
> Doubt its your bios.
> Have you tried writing a new partition table from gparted ?
>
>
> On 20/11/12 22:27, Dick Thomas wrote:
>>
>> these are the ones I couldn't get to boot, It could be my bios too not
>> supporting them
>>
>>
>> http://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-SDCZ50-Cruzer-Blade-Flash/dp/B002U28LZC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1353450372&sr=8-1&tag=jupitebroadc-21
>>
>> On 20 November 2012 22:24, Nick Rhodes <nick at ngrhodes.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> My  Blade 4g did work (before it started erroring)... but its old so it
>>> could quite well be an earlier revision.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 20/11/12 22:21, Dick Thomas wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I've got 3 sandisk blades that fail to boot all 8GB
>>>>
>>>> On 20 November 2012 22:17, Nick Rhodes <nick at ngrhodes.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers for that, I need 1 approx 8gb or bigger and 3 or 4 1gb.
>>>>>
>>>>> Conversely do we know which sticks don't work ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Last memory stick I bought was a Sandisk from Asda and worked fine, but
>>>>> painfully slow, so would prefer something reasonably performant.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 20/11/12 22:12, Dick Thomas wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> these brand work perfectly (as i have a few) but aren't really cheap
>>>>>> if you find some let me know as you know I need some for my new secret
>>>>>> project :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.conrad-uk.com/ce/en/product/412254?WT.mc_id=googlebase&insert=8V&adcampaign=googlebase&CAWELAID=1181572878&catargetid=1391624267&adtype=pla&cagpspn=pla&gclid=CLCml6PI3rMCFXDLtAoddEEASw
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 20 November 2012 22:10, Nick Rhodes <nick at ngrhodes.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As my trusty collection of USB drives is getting old and starting to
>>>>>>> fail, I
>>>>>>> need to replenish my supplies.
>>>>>>> But it was mentioned to me that some USB sticks don't work for LiveCD
>>>>>>> usage
>>>>>>> (I think Dick mentioned it).
>>>>>>> So is there a recent list of drives that do for sure work, or maybe
>>>>>>> you've
>>>>>>> purchased some recently at a sensible price that do ?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cheers, Nick
>>>>>>>
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