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I have to say the reason I still want an iso is at least I have a much higher guarantee it will work. I just spent about 4 hours this week trying to get clonezi
by birdman3131 5y ago
I have to say the reason I still want an iso is at least I have a much higher guarantee it will work. I just spent about 4 hours this week trying to get clonezilla to boot from usb and could not get it to work. EFi. Legacy. Everything I could think of. And this was on a reasonably modern server (2015/16 ish lenovo with a e3-1270 V5 )
Come to find out it was the fact that it was a usb 3.0 flash drive. Grabbed a 2.0 drive and everything worked fine.
Had I had a dvd burner (Ironically the computer in question did have one but it was not useable till i fixed it.) I would have saved myself significant amounts of time. (Or randomly grabbed a crappier flash drive.)
- causi 5y agoYes, I've found USB 3 and above to be significantly less compatible and reliable than 2.0 and below. I can always trust that whatever I have plugged into a 2.0 port will work the moment the PC comes on, be it a flash drive or a DVD drive or a keyboard/mouse. That isn't always the case with a 3.0 port.
- birdman3131 5y agoIt was a usb 3 port. It just would not see it to boot.
- anonymfus 5y agoThe reason for the problems like you describe is that on many motherboards ports with later USB versions were implemented with discrete USB host controllers or ever hubs, while ports of older standards were integrated into the southbridge. This is one of the reasons why the first thing I do encountering a previously unexplored PC is looking on motherboard block diagram in the motherboard's manual to understand how ports are routed.