I'm trying to build a bootable USB Flash Drive with an image backup that was restored to a flash drive.
The image backup was taken from a working installation of Windows XP Pro SP3 using Macrium Reflect free edition. The backup and restore operations both completed successfully.
I'm using a SanDisk Cruzer 64gb flash drive. All the files can be browsed on the flash drive, but the drive will not boot.
I get the BSOD whenever it tries to boot from that drive.
I've also tried with a different image backup that came from a disk with a clean installation of XP that came with a refurbished PC I bought. Same problem.
It could be just a problem with trying to boot from a USB device because I also tried to boot my clean install of XP hard drive connected via a USB interface to a machine with the same BSOD results.
I've tried booting from 3 different machines, so I don't think it's a hardware problem.
My research indicated it could be a problem with the NTLDR or boot.ini, so I've used Macrium Reflect Rescue disk to rebuild the boot.ini and MBR. Nothing seems to help.
I'd like to get this working so I know that my image backups are restorable.
The hardware I have available to me are a ThinkPad T41, ThinkPad T61, and eMachines desktop.
Thanks in advance for any help.
The image backup was taken from a working installation of Windows XP Pro SP3 using Macrium Reflect free edition. The backup and restore operations both completed successfully.
I'm using a SanDisk Cruzer 64gb flash drive. All the files can be browsed on the flash drive, but the drive will not boot.
I get the BSOD whenever it tries to boot from that drive.
I've also tried with a different image backup that came from a disk with a clean installation of XP that came with a refurbished PC I bought. Same problem.
It could be just a problem with trying to boot from a USB device because I also tried to boot my clean install of XP hard drive connected via a USB interface to a machine with the same BSOD results.
I've tried booting from 3 different machines, so I don't think it's a hardware problem.
My research indicated it could be a problem with the NTLDR or boot.ini, so I've used Macrium Reflect Rescue disk to rebuild the boot.ini and MBR. Nothing seems to help.
I'd like to get this working so I know that my image backups are restorable.
The hardware I have available to me are a ThinkPad T41, ThinkPad T61, and eMachines desktop.
Thanks in advance for any help.