Acer Aspire 5560 will not boot from a bootable USB.

[superluig164]

Hi guys, I'm having a problem when booting from a bootable USB stick. Well, I actually can't. I have the BIOS settings set to boot first from my Gigastone USB stick (Drive H: ) and then from the HD. Problem is, when it's plugged in to H:, I get the message "Please disconnect any removable storage devices. Press any key to restart" (or something along those lines.) Can someone please help me find a solution? Also, the USB drive is bootable with the Android-x86 Project. I used ISO to USB to burn the ISO.

 

[Tom Tancredi]

Uhmm your platform is NOT one confirmed as working with this 'port'. I would use VirtualBox first, and see if you can run it that way.

 

[mbarnes86]

Hi

Have you tried the USB bootable on a different PC to see if it is working & bootable

Or use the Microsoft program to copy ISO of windows 7 ( or DVD) to USB memory to check the PC & bios can boot from USB memory stick

Regards
Mike Barnes

 

[superluig164]

Uhmm your platform is NOT one confirmed as working with this 'port'. I would use VirtualBox first, and see if you can run it that way.

I have already installed Android x86 on my desktop computer and it works flawlessly. I just want to be able to run it on a USB as to not take up space on my laptop s HD.

 

[Tom Tancredi]

Well it sounds like you didn't format the USB as bootable, and I would go back to the drawing board. Using VirtualBoix wouldnt' take up space perse on the HD, or very little allocated considering the side of the USB memory stick it would be the same on your laptop HD.

 

[superluig164]

Well it sounds like you didn't format the USB as bootable, and I would go back to the drawing board. Using VirtualBoix wouldnt' take up space perse on the HD, or very little allocated considering the side of the USB memory stick it would be the same on your laptop HD.

I suppose I'll just install it as a dual boot on the HD with a 16GB partition. Thanks anyway. I would really like to get this done on the USB. How can I format it as boo table if the ISO isn't already?

 

[Tom Tancredi]

The ISO doesn't make the USB Bootable, the hardware first (if the SRAM is fast enough) determines if it is bootable, then secondly the way you format / set it as a boot device. http://rufus.akeo.ie/ is the easiest way (simple search brought it up https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome-psyapi2&ion=1&espv=2&es_th=1&ie=UTF-8&q=how%20to%20create%20a%20bootable%20usb%20drive), but if the ISO isn't ready then you need to get a bootable ISO. Go back to the website and you will have to do some research, far as I know thy may PURPOSEFULLY require only boot of installed drives.

 

[superluig164]

The ISO doesn't make the USB Bootable, the hardware first (if the SRAM is fast enough) determines if it is bootable, then secondly the way you format / set it as a boot device. http://rufus.akeo.ie/ is the easiest way (simple search brought it up https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome-psyapi2&ion=1&espv=2&es_th=1&ie=UTF-8&q=how%20to%20create%20a%20bootable%20usb%20drive), but if the ISO isn't ready then you need to get a bootable ISO. Go back to the website and you will have to do some research, far as I know thy may PURPOSEFULLY require only boot of installed drives.

I am going try to boot using a USB i made with Rufus right now. If it works, I'll post this answer as the solution. If not, well, I'll update this reply.

Thank you for the help,
-Superluig164