On Tuesday 31 May 2016 12:12:52 Roger Munford via Hampshire wrote:
> I am trying to replace an old failed Epos system which is no longer made
> with a second hand pos PC.
>
> The new second hand PC had its disk wiped so I had to buy a copy of
> Microsoft "PosReady2009" which is a version of XP for Epos and is still
> supported.
>
> The new PC has no disk drive and so I have to install from a USB stick.
>
> After some time, I managed to create one from the "iso" image with
> "rufus.exe" and installed the OS. However when powering it up and
> expecting it to boot from the hard disk, I got a "disk error CTRL ALT
> DEL to continue". I was able to run CHKDSK from the installation USB
> which indicated that the drive was OK.
>
> The next step was to create a rescue disk and hopefully find the
> problem. However after trying combinations of several different USB
> drives, rescue disk images and drive creators (rufus windows, Unetbootin
> and universal) I have not been able to create another bootable USB - all
> also fail on another PC. The only successful USB was the first which was
> in fact brand new and unused. I am not keen on experimenting with this.
>
> Any advice would be gratefully received.
I have had this problem. I finally found that nuking a USB stick with GParted
and then repartitioning it, still with GPatrted, and reformatting it, with
GParted, with FAT32 worked. So far, at least. Then I could dd it (with
Debian) or whatever (with less obliging distros ;-) ) and have a bootable
USB stick.
Lisi
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