I'm about to purchase an unRAID license, but before I do, I want to change the flash drive that I am currently using to a different one.  I have several reasons for doing so: storage size (current one is only 1GB compared to the 4GB new one) and physical size.

 

I thought it would be simple to change drives, but I have not been able to successfully boot with the new flash drive.

 

I followed the directions for prepping a flash drive

-formatted the drive, tried both FAT and FAT32 (my working flash is formatted as FAT)

-labeled drive UNRAID

-copied the contents from my current flash to the new one through windows explorer.

-right clicked makebootable.bat and ran as administrator

 

I purchased the same exact flash drive that my friend has on his unRAID to ensure compatibility, yet I can't get it to start up.

 

I'm using Windows 7 and loosing my hair

Try checking the BIOS, some motherboards require you enabling boot from removable devices, or if it is older you might even need to force it to see the USB stick as a drive, then put it into the boot sequence.

The bios is set to boot from the removable device.  If I insert my original 1GB flash drive, unRAID will boot.  If I insert the new 4GB flash drive, unRAID won't boot.

 

 

Edit: my friend who has the same flash drive just informed me that he couldn't get it to boot when he used Windows 7 either (He has to use XP).  He should have mentioned this before I bought the drive, but I guess I'll have to get my hands on a PC running XP then.  Hopefully that should make it work.

I'm about to purchase an unRAID license, but before I do, I want to change the flash drive that I am currently using to a different one.  I have several reasons for doing so: storage size (current one is only 1GB compared to the 4GB new one) and physical size.

 

I thought it would be simple to change drives, but I have not been able to successfully boot with the new flash drive.

 

I followed the directions for prepping a flash drive

-formatted the drive, tried both FAT and FAT32 (my working flash is formatted as FAT)

-labeled drive UNRAID

-copied the contents from my current flash to the new one through windows explorer.

-right clicked makebootable.bat and ran as administrator

 

I purchased the same exact flash drive that my friend has on his unRAID to ensure compatibility, yet I can't get it to start up.

 

I'm using Windows 7 and loosing my hair

On my Vista PC "right Clicking" on the makebootable.bat and running as administrator DID NOT result in a bootable flash drive.

 

I had to open a command window as "Administrator"  by "Right Clicking on "Accessories->Command Window" and then selecting "Run As Administrator"  Once the command window was open I could then run the makebootable command.

 

That seemed to work.

 

Joe L.

 

I went to Accessories>Command Prompt right-clicked and ran as Administrator.  I then right clicked and ran make_bootable.bat as Administrater as well.

 

Still did not boot up

I went to Accessories>Command Prompt right-clicked and ran as Administrator.  I then right clicked and ran make_bootable.bat as Administrater as well.

 

Still did not boot up

Did you select it as the boot device?

Run the makebootable.bat by typing it in the the command window which is running as administrator.

I went to Accessories>Command Prompt right-clicked and ran as Administrator.  I then right clicked and ran make_bootable.bat as Administrater as well.

 

Still did not boot up

 

Did you use the command prompt to run make_bootable.bat?  It sounds a bit like you did it from Explorer again...just thought I'd ask

It turns out I had to change some of the settings in the BIOS.  It was strange since my old Flash drive used the USB setting (FDD) and this time I had to change it to (Hard Disk).

 

I guess different flash drives need a little bit of bios tinkering sometimes.

 

Thanks guys