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    Booting a Y450 from USB Key?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Arla, Sep 13, 2009.

  1. Arla

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    Anyone ever done this? I have a USB key that I can boot my old ACER with just fine, but the Y450 doesn't seem to "detect" it (best I can describe, it doesn't appear on the menu when I use the F12 boot) it's a PNY attache drive, in case it makes any difference (8GB).
     
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    Is the USB drive set as an active partition?
     
    bernieyee, Sep 14, 2009
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    USB has (from GParted) the Boot flag set (only flag that's set) it also does also allow my Acer 8204 to boot, so I'm sort of assuming it's a problem with booting a Y450 and this particular USB drive, unless I'm doing something horribly wrong. It never appears on the menu (F12) but I'm not sure how that menu is driven, I guess I'd have assumed (if it detected it) that it would display even if the drive wasn't setup right, and just would fail to boot if selected.
     
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