how to boot with a kingston pendrive?

[FixxeS]

I have a kingston datatraveller 100 g2, has 8GB and I can't manage to make it bootable. I want to install or Ubuntu or Zorin OS, I am new to Linux. currently I am using windows 10.
the problem with my flash drive/USB stick is that I've saved ISO's there, used universal USB installer or something like that and the result is always the same: the computer warns that there is no OS inside the pendrive. this is what I do:

- I used universal USB installer, selected the correct drive (my pendrive) checked the box to format the pendrive, selected the ISO and let the program do it's job. than, restarted my computer, entered the BIOS and changed the order to make my kingston pendrive the first drive to boot. than the error comes saying that there is nothing to boot from. it is not the first time this happens. I had a 16GB pendrive, also from Kingston and I could make it bootable, just this particular pendrive I can't.

is there something I can do?

 

[Boogieman_WD]

Hey there, FixxeS.

It's a bit weird if the same process has worked for a different flash drive.
For Ubuntu you can try out this tutorial: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows and download it from here: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD

 

[FixxeS]

Hey there, FixxeS.

It's a bit weird if the same process has worked for a different flash drive.
For Ubuntu you can try out this tutorial: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows and download it from here: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD

the tutorial helped a lot, although it didint worked for that specific pendrive. I've been told by a guy working on a eletronics shop that this specific model of pendrive uses some kind of algorithm or somthing like that that makes the pendrive unbootable. he said it's rare, but there are some pendrive models that are like this and we can't do nothing to change it.

 

[Boogieman_WD]

Basically these weird things happen sometimes, although there's no particular reason and it should work with every flash drive you try (having in mind it's capacity is enough of course). About the algorithm, I'm not really sure, but perhaps you might be able to check that out with the flash drive manufacturer's customer support to see if the give you a bit more info on the subject.