Wednesday, March 1, 2017

usb - Are flash drives always bootable?


I have this 8 gb toshiba flash drive and my motherboard also allows booting from removable devices. But I don't know, I've already tried to make the flash drive bootable and set in the bios to boot from USB. But it doesn't work. Are flash drives always bootable?


Answer



Well, I can't give you any technical explanation, but I do know that I have a couple of flash drives that are bootable and working, and others that don't (using the same techniques). So I guess the answer is:


No, they aren't always bootable.


Not sure if there is any way of knowing if a flash drive is bootable other than trying it though.


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