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+ <B>vze1pbnt at verizon.net</B>
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+ <I>Wed Sep 26 20:18:04 CEST 2012</I>
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+<PRE>&gt;<i>Thank you for reading this.
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+</I>&gt;<i>Over the years I've attempted to create a bootable external USB drive,
+</I>&gt;<i>but without success. Recently I tried unetbootin which is supposed to
+</I>&gt;<i>download and install a Linux distribution of choice and then create a
+</I>&gt;<i>bootable disc. It all seems to work well except my laptop won't boot
+</I>&gt;<i>from the newly created bootable external drive.
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+</I>&gt;<i>I've occasionally forgotten to unplug my e-book reader and the next time
+</I>&gt;<i>that I start the computer I'm informed that &quot;this is not a bootable
+</I>&gt;<i>disc.&quot; So, the computer does detect whether an external device is
+</I>&gt;<i>bootable or not.
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+</I>&gt;<i>My question is, how can I determine whether the external drive is indeed
+</I>&gt;<i>bootable or not? Is there a bit that's set somewhere if it's bootable?
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i>--
+</I>&gt;<i>Regards,
+</I>&gt;<i>Phil
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>
+Have never had a problem doing this. CDs and DVDs I have burned from iso files have always been bootable.
+I would say check you bios if you were not getting that bootable disc message. So I think the place to look at is setting up
+writing the disk or USB stick. I did have one friend who had this problem. When I checked his boot disk it had one file on
+it, with the extension of iso. But check you bios just to be sure.
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