Pretty simple really, title says it all. Specifically, the command prompt seems to hang after it shows this: U:\syslinux\syslinux.exe -maf U: and the cursor moves to the next line and blinks menacingly. After this I cannot type anything. The first time this happened I left it overnight, but the next morning it was still hung up here. The drive is the SanDisk Cruzer Fit, 8GB, that is suggested on the Hardware Recommendations page. The volume label is showing as UNRAID, I (quick) formatted it to FAT32, allocation size of 4KB, ran the command prompt as administrator. I'm doing all of this on Windows 7 if that helps. As far as I can tell, I am doing everything right, but hopefully I'm not and you fine people can reveal it to me. I don't really want to have to buy another drive and that is pretty much the only idea I have right now.

Have you tried a different PC or a different USB slot?    Your symptoms suggest that Windows is locking up when trying to write to the USB stick.

Welp. Changing systems worked. As thanks for your simple and "I should have thought of that" solution, I will tell you of the stupid thing I did while trying it out. So I set up my old computer that I never use anymore since my only other system uses SteamOS at the moment. My monitor has DVI and VGA and a button on the front that allows you to switch between the two; it is useful in these kinds of situations. So, I get it booted up, having to wait forever because the thing is 6 or 7 years old. I get to the command prompt and hit a key. Nothing happens. Now I am perplexed. What the hell is going on, this computer can't be that bad. Well, many minutes go by, I have already typed out a response revealing how this isn't working and I guess I will need to buy a new flash drive when I decide I will give it one last try. So I go through all of it again, making sure to hit lots of keys because maybe that will help. Same result. How sad. I switch back to send the reply and what do I see at the end of my post, but this: "bkjhsdfrbjkvbdfr ,jkmnvdswrb w drvkbjnu  jkn,sbfkbj  " I was using the wrong keyboard. Switched back, used the correct keyboard and voila! Success. I thank you again for your help. But don't go too far, I will probably need it again, if this story is anything to go by.

Hi Guys,

 

Unfortunately for me I tried two Win 7 pc's in multiple USB ports using 3 different USB sticks and the process just hangs just as yours.  Not sure what else to do??? Is there a another way of making this USB bootable?

 

16gb Cruzer EZ Sandisk

 

Thx!

 

Try right-click "Run as Administrator" on make_bootable.bat?

Thanks for the suggestion and I did do that. 

 

I actually was able to create the boot disk action but did so by just using another PC.  For some reason my current PC isn't able to complete the action.

 

Thx all.