![]() ![]() ![]() If you are referring to the situation regarding the change where currently produced drives from a number of the main manufacturers are no longer seen as "removable", then I can only say there is a plethera of supporting documentation available on line about that. At the same time, they announced that they no longer supported being able to boot from these drives. ![]() This was in order to meet with Windows 8 certification. Quote from: olddog on December 11, 2013, 11:54:24 PM From mid 2012, manufacturers of USB flash drives like SanDisk buckled to pressure from Microsoft, and changed the structure of all of their USB flash drives so they are no longer seen by Windows as "Removable Media". On other brands and models it has either not worked, or has resulted in the complete failure of the drive. There are reports of some success toggling the removable bit in the controller, but only on specific model drives. Some software specifically looks for "removable media" and doesn't show the newer "non removable" flash drives as an available destination at the start of the process.īut even when a "non removable" USB flash drive can be selected as a destination, and the make rescue media process is completed, some PC's see the "non removable" flash drives as normal hard drives in the boot up selection screen, but cannot boot from them, and this applies even if you make a drive image from a "Removable" rescue drive that does work, and restore it to one of the "non removable" flash drives.Įdit: There is a difference in the controller chips in the "Non removable" flash drives. It is possible to make a workable Avast bootable rescue USB flash drive from the option provided in Avast 2014, but only on flash drives that are seen as "removable". This issue is not confined to Avast, it also affects other rescue or recovery software that is based on booting to a USB flash drive. It was done as a clean installation after a complete uninstall of the previous version (2006), and clean up using both the Avast uninstall tool (Avastclear.exe) from safe mode, and RejZoR's Avast Cleanup Tool.įrom mid 2012, manufacturers of USB flash drives like SanDisk buckled to pressure from Microsoft, and changed the structure of all of their USB flash drives so they are no longer seen by Windows as "Removable Media". The Paragon recovery flash drive (made on the same Flash drive that had been used for the Avast recovery, after reformatting) works from the same USB socket, selected from the same boot menu. I can also make an entire partition image using Paragon in less time that it takes to do the above. I can make a Paragon recovery USB flash drive in a fraction of the time it takes to make the Avast one, and it works. I have repeated the above several times, and the results bad as they are, are consistent. Booted up, selected the rescue USB flash drive from the boot menu, and was rewarded with "Reboot & Select Proper Device, or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a Key", and no way could I get it to accept the rescue as valid boot media Finally it told me I had a rescue USB device.ĥ. That download took another 29 minutes (and I'm on high speed cable).Ĥ. Nearly 10 minutes later, the dialogue returned, and said it was going to download the toolkit. Task Manager also reported Avast as not responding, but clued by a very occasional flash of the drive light, I left it alone.ģ. Having clicked on "Create on USB", I was rewarded by the Avast dialogue panel turning completely white, and with the "windows not responding spinning cursor"Ģ. ![]()
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