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Windows 8.1 setup isn't recognizing my USB drive. Help please :D

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  • USB Flash
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January 15, 2014 12:01:37 PM

So I'm trying to install windows 8.1 pro by creating media, the problem is, when I select 'usb flash drive' it says that it can't find a drive. Help???

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January 15, 2014 12:04:26 PM

if your flash drive is plugged into a front port USB, try moving it to the rear onboard usb ports. depending on your hardware configuration, it may not detect front usb ports until after chipset drivers or OS is installed.
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January 15, 2014 12:06:25 PM

You might have to enable boot to USB devices in the bios.

Also, I have found that some USB ports are bootable and others are not on the same system.

And, on top of that, some devices are uefi compatible (work with secureboot) and others are not, if you are trying to use Secure Boot and full uefi mode.
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January 15, 2014 12:11:26 PM

kewlguy239 said:
if your flash drive is plugged into a front port USB, try moving it to the rear onboard usb ports. depending on your hardware configuration, it may not detect front usb ports until after chipset drivers or OS is installed.


This is the screen I get:
http://gyazo.com/691724f5589b40d2209b57e7c8bb5ee3

(F:)  is the USB drive btw
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January 15, 2014 9:47:06 PM

ugh, do you have Windows set to show all files and not hide anything?
Also, since you're in the drive itself, I can't tell anything about the drive, like the size and used space, and file system.

How did you create the USB to boot to Windows installation?
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February 20, 2014 1:49:44 PM

@Joninho did you find a solution? Im trying to create a bootable win8.1 usb but it wont recognize the usb drive.
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April 17, 2014 11:22:06 AM

I had this problem. I solved it by changing USB flash drives.
Thing is, both drives were FAT32, 7.45 GB free space but only the Kingston drive was detected.
The Sandisk drive was not. In fact, none of my USB flash Sandisk drives were detected.

I should mention that the Sandisk drives were not detected by the Windows 8.1 install program but they were detected and were usable elsewhere in Windows 7.
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September 24, 2014 1:05:45 AM

tibbit said:
I had this problem. I solved it by changing USB flash drives.
Thing is, both drives were FAT32, 7.45 GB free space but only the Kingston drive was detected.
The Sandisk drive was not. In fact, none of my USB flash Sandisk drives were detected.

I should mention that the Sandisk drives were not detected by the Windows 8.1 install program but they were detected and were usable elsewhere in Windows 7.


I can confirm sandisk drives are not being recognised by the windows setup program when trying to create the USB flash media.

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