After loading Windows 8 from a fresh install using a boot DVD I found it would sometimes fail to boot after a restart. Immediately after Boot It Bare Metal screen, the screen would go blank and stay that way. After a lot of head banging and cursing of Microsoft and all its works, as well as restarting from scratch several times, I tried stripping the machine back to a minimum and then restoring items until it stopped booting again. To make a long story short (ish) I discovered the problem was a USB flash drive. I could actually unblock the boot just by removing this *after* BiBM without having to restart!
I tried reformatting the USB stick in Windows (FAT32, leaving it blank), but it still blocked the boot. I then tried reformatting it in BiBM and this cured the problem. Even after copying the files back onto the stick, Windows 8 now boots with it present. I tried another USB stick which displayed exactly the same symptoms. I thought maybe the USB drive was somehow pre-empting the boot sequence and it was trying to boot from that rather than the correct boot SSD, but in BiBM the SSD shows up as Drive 0 and the USB drive appears after all the SATA drives. Neither of these USB Drives presented any problems in Windows 7, but I should point out that I upgraded BiBM and the boot SSD at the same time as Windows, so I cannot be sure which caused the problem (or even if I might have set things up a bit different).
I post this mainly to help others, but if anyone has any kind of explanation for this weirdness I'd like to hear it!
Windows 8 boot blocked by USB Flash Drive
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Re: Windows 8 boot blocked by USB Flash Drive
I have a feeling there will be lots of "weird" issues with W8 because I
don't think it was well tested on hardware, most were probably using VM's.
"JohnHind" wrote in message news:3681@public.bootitbm...
After loading Windows 8 from a fresh install using a boot DVD I found it
would sometimes fail to boot after a restart. Immediately after Boot It Bare
Metal screen, the screen would go blank and stay that way. After a lot of
head banging and cursing of Microsoft and all its works, as well as
restarting from scratch several times, I tried stripping the machine back to
a minimum and then restoring items until it stopped booting again. To make a
long story short (ish) I discovered the problem was a USB flash drive. I
could actually unblock the boot just by removing this *after* BiBM without
having to restart!
I tried reformatting the USB stick in Windows (FAT32, leaving it blank), but
it still blocked the boot. I then tried reformatting it in BiBM and this
cured the problem. Even after copying the files back onto the stick, Windows
8 now boots with it present. I tried another USB stick which displayed
exactly the same symptoms. I thought maybe the USB drive was somehow
pre-empting the boot sequence and it was trying to boot from that rather
than the correct boot SSD, but in BiBM the SSD shows up as Drive 0 and the
USB drive appears after all the SATA drives. Neither of these USB Drives
presented any problems in Windows 7, but I should point out that I upgraded
BiBM and the boot SSD at the same time as Windows, so I cannot be sure which
caused the problem (or even if I might have set things up a bit different).
I post this mainly to help others, but if anyone has any kind of explanation
for this weirdness I'd like to hear it!
don't think it was well tested on hardware, most were probably using VM's.
"JohnHind" wrote in message news:3681@public.bootitbm...
After loading Windows 8 from a fresh install using a boot DVD I found it
would sometimes fail to boot after a restart. Immediately after Boot It Bare
Metal screen, the screen would go blank and stay that way. After a lot of
head banging and cursing of Microsoft and all its works, as well as
restarting from scratch several times, I tried stripping the machine back to
a minimum and then restoring items until it stopped booting again. To make a
long story short (ish) I discovered the problem was a USB flash drive. I
could actually unblock the boot just by removing this *after* BiBM without
having to restart!
I tried reformatting the USB stick in Windows (FAT32, leaving it blank), but
it still blocked the boot. I then tried reformatting it in BiBM and this
cured the problem. Even after copying the files back onto the stick, Windows
8 now boots with it present. I tried another USB stick which displayed
exactly the same symptoms. I thought maybe the USB drive was somehow
pre-empting the boot sequence and it was trying to boot from that rather
than the correct boot SSD, but in BiBM the SSD shows up as Drive 0 and the
USB drive appears after all the SATA drives. Neither of these USB Drives
presented any problems in Windows 7, but I should point out that I upgraded
BiBM and the boot SSD at the same time as Windows, so I cannot be sure which
caused the problem (or even if I might have set things up a bit different).
I post this mainly to help others, but if anyone has any kind of explanation
for this weirdness I'd like to hear it!
Re: Windows 8 boot blocked by USB Flash Drive
On Fri, 2 Nov 2012 12:10:15 PDT, just as I was about to take a herb,
"TeraByte Support" disturbed my
reverie and wrote:
>I have a feeling there will be lots of "weird" issues with W8 because I
>don't think it was well tested on hardware, most were probably using VM's.
I had an immediate issue after install in which windows updates would
fail to be applied and had an inability to changed the desktop
wallpaper. I use a handy utility to bring back the start menu from
Stardock.
--
Cheers
DrT
______________________________
We may not be able to prevent the stormy times in
our lives; but we can always choose whether or not
to dance in the puddles (Jewish proverb).
"TeraByte Support" disturbed my
reverie and wrote:
>I have a feeling there will be lots of "weird" issues with W8 because I
>don't think it was well tested on hardware, most were probably using VM's.
I had an immediate issue after install in which windows updates would
fail to be applied and had an inability to changed the desktop
wallpaper. I use a handy utility to bring back the start menu from
Stardock.
--
Cheers
DrT
______________________________
We may not be able to prevent the stormy times in
our lives; but we can always choose whether or not
to dance in the puddles (Jewish proverb).