kingston USB can not boot !

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Re: kingston USB can not boot !

Post#16 by Slaxmax » 24 Sep 2013, 21:23

Once I got a 4GB flash drive, but its chip memory in real was 32MB. The system indicated 4GB but copied with errors because the controller was set to 4GB. The memory chip was good, but the setting in the controller was incorrect. Using the correct tool for flash disk activated it to 32MB. Only 32MB! :lol:
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Re: kingston USB can not boot !

Post#17 by hypomania » 26 Sep 2013, 16:53

@wread
nice to chat with you too,
why they creat flash with zero sector !

@donald
I formated but still can not boot

@brokeman , @slaxmax
I will try those tools and comeback to you

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I tried another one from Scandisk and it's work fine.

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Re: kingston USB can not boot !

Post#18 by donald » 26 Sep 2013, 17:33

@Arabic_World
Arabic_World wrote: why they creat flash with zero sector
This sector (0<=>1) is called the MBR (master boot record)
It contains e.g the partition-table and more.I am not a native english-speaker
so It is best described here
Master boot record
If you have a Hex-Editor Programm you can take a look at this sector.
regards

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Re: kingston USB can not boot !

Post#19 by hypomania » 27 Sep 2013, 22:47

thank you very much guys for sharing information about this problem.
I did format with different filesystems many times but still can not boot.
I will use another one which can boot normally.

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Re: kingston USB can not boot !

Post#20 by cttan » 02 Oct 2013, 03:55


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