Unable to setup USB Drive with Endless OS Installation

english install
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Unable to setup USB drive with Endless OS installation Getting Error
Here is the log: http://pastebin.com/prA7zXHW

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Hi,

Thanks for sharing that log. Here’s the relevant bit:

12:10:43 - EndlessUsbToolDlg.cpp:4523 CEndlessUsbToolDlg::CreateFakePartitionLayout
12:10:43 - EndlessUsbToolDlg.cpp:4850 CEndlessUsbToolDlg::WriteMBRAndSBRToUSB
12:10:43 - Size of SBR is 1048576 bytes from C:\Users\Ashish\AppData\Local\Temp\EndlessBoot\live\core.img
12:10:43 - write_sectors: Write error [0x00000002] The system cannot find the file specified.
12:10:43 -   Wrote: 0, Expected: 512
12:10:43 -   StartSector: 0x0001f800, nSectors: 0x1, SectorSize: 0x200
12:10:43 - EndlessUsbToolDlg.cpp:4885 Error on write data with core.img contents. (GLE=[2])
12:10:43 - EndlessUsbToolDlg.cpp:4452 Error on WriteMBRAndSBRToUSB (GLE=[2])
12:10:43 - CreateUSBStick exited with error.

I haven’t seen this error before! I wonder if there is a race condition between writing the partition table to the disk, and writing data to one of the partitions. Can you plug in the USB stick, open the Windows Disk Management app, and take a screenshot of the partition layout of the USB stick?

Also: maybe a silly question, but have you tried pressing the Try again button?

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For now I have Installed the OS in my USB Disk. But was not able to setup Installation Live USB in the San Disk Extreme Disk.
What I was able to figure out till now in Disk Management, if a usb Drive is Basic disk then you cant setup Live USB.
And if usb Drive is Removable Storage you can setup Live USB.

So what I did was I used another Sony USB Drive (showing as Removable Storage in diskmgmt.msc) wrote Installation into it, booted from it and installed Endless OS on my USB Drive Sandisk Extreme (showing as Basic disk in diskmgmt.msc).

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That’s strange. Sure enough your SanDisk Extreme is detected as “Fixed” not “Removable” by our code:

12:10:23 - Found USB 3.0 device 'SanDisk Extreme USB Device' (0781:5580)
12:10:23 - EndlessUsbToolDlg.cpp:3185 CEndlessUsbToolDlg::OnSelectedUSBDiskChanged
12:10:23 - No volume information for drive 0x81
12:10:23 - Disk type: Fixed, Sector Size: 512 bytes
12:10:23 - Cylinders: 1946, TracksPerCylinder: 255, SectorsPerTrack: 63
12:10:23 - Partition type: MBR, NB Partitions: 0
12:10:23 - Disk ID: 0x81CEF80C

Is it one of these? https://www.sandisk.com/home/usb-flash/extreme-usb

It’s weird because those all look pretty removable to me… :slight_smile:

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I’ve seen some references to this around the internet, eg this thread: http://superuser.com/questions/625750/san-disk-cruzer-16g-usb-detected-as-local-disk

I have a few recent SanDisk devices here and they are all considered removable.

Do you have the log file from the time you successfully wrote to the Sony USB drive?

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Yes I am using the same San Disk Extreme mentioned above.
I can provide you log for Sony Usb Drive
pastebin.com/JbJ23vVd

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I’m having a similar problem. At the end of the USB creation, my USB drive simply disappears from “My Computer” and I get the same message seen on the first post.

Here’s a link to my log: EndlessInstaller20161105_07_59_04.log (130.3 KB)

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This is actually a different problem: the English image needs at least a 22GB USB stick, and the stick you’re using appears to be 16GB. (This seems to be a bug in the USB creator, thanks for letting us know.)

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Thanks for the response. Time to buy a new stick and try again :slight_smile:

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Can you please suggest …I am getting same error of failing CreateUSBStick

Here is the complete log: http://pastebin.com/SggQRscf