G470 not booting from USB pen drive

[len0v0]

You need to write the ISO on USB-HDD mode, not in USB-HDD + mode. Many people fail to boot because of this error. Program as the "UltraISO" can help you, but it is shareware.

[finomeno]

Well, none of my old pen drives work for booting on this laptop, still. They do work on other machines though.

I got a new  flash pen drive recently. Used the same procedure for creating a bootable linux installation disk on it as with the previous drives (Ubuntu's Startup Disk Creator utility). And all of a sudden it worked. On all machines including my G470.

I repeatedly checked three different pen drives with two different distros on them (Ubuntu 11.10 and Chakra 2011.12) one after another. They all work on a Sony, an HP and an MSI laptops, but only the new one works on the Lenovo. Must be some hardware issue.

So if anyone is experiencing the same problem, I suggest you try a recent flash drive.

Thanks everyone for trying to help!

[zoltanthegypsy]

Haven't read back through the (oldish) thread...

Does the working flash drive have the partition set active, by any chance?

Z.

[rzrfreefr]

may this be fixed with updated bios :

http://download.lenovo.com/consumer/mobiles/40cn32ww_64bit.exe

[wallawalla]

I've got the same problem with my t430s. Working boot drive in a pen drive. Updated bios to 1.14 and still not working. I'm trying to load the Windows recovery data. When I went to create the recovery d data on actual discs it says I can only create one copy! Gahhh very frustrating

[zoltanthegypsy]

wallawalla,

This may help to burn a set of media: Boot Media

Note, we're talking about a ThinkPad here (in the Essential board - where it doesn't belong).  This won't apply to the G series discussed in this thread.

Z.

[wallawalla]

Thanks zoltanthegypsy, my apologies for posting in the wroing forum. That link is exactly what I was looking for.

The issue I'm having is exactly as described by the posters here so I thought it might be releveant.