This entry was posted in Linux-Ubuntu, Microsoft, Nonsense on Septemby Oliver Baty. In the event that a quick format as FAT32 doesn’t work for you, you can try running a few diskpart commands in Windows to really thoroughly format a flash drive, including the MBR and partition table. Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.9.1.exe Universal USB Installer for PC 1.9.9.1 (Free) User rating Download Changelog We dont have any change log information yet for version 1.9.9.1 of Universal USB Installer. No wonder Google wasn’t returning any results when I searched this – who’s going to have missed properly formatting the drive not once but twice? Simply choose a Live Linux Distribution, the ISO file, your Flash Drive and, Click Install. It lets you choose from a selection of Linux Distributions to put on a USB pendrive. I had forgotten to format the drive as FAT32 before running the utility, but I also managed to not check the box next to “We will format G:\Drive as FAT32.” in the utility itself. Universal USB Installer is a tool that creates Live Linux USB installations that can be booted. When I ran syslinux.exe -maf G:, I got a much more informative message, or at least one that I could better understand: this doesn’t look like a valid FAT filesystem.Īnd of course, the flash drive wasn’t FAT32, it was NTFS. When I opened a command prompt and ran syslinuxnew.exe -maf G:, the result was zero FAT sectors. The message in the command line window read:Įxecute: C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Temp\.tmp\syslinuxnew.exe -maf G:Ī message box would then appear with the following warning:Īn error(1) occurred while executing syslinux. I was trying to create a bootable flash drive with Ubuntu 11.04 using the Universal USB Installer 1.8.6.3 utility from on a Windows 7 64-bit machine with a 16 GB flash drive (mapped to G:), but I kept getting an error that the drive wouldn’t be bootable.
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