ISO is only bootable by CD, not USB

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I have an ISO that I'm trying to get ready for PXE booting. After many attempts, I tried to check if it is even bootable by USB and it wasn't. Then I took a CD and burned the image onto it and it worked.

What reasons can there be for this?

Data concerning the image: Symantec Antivirus Live CD, Windows PE 4.0, 396 MB size

Error message when booting (PXE & USB): 0xc0000017 (An unexpected error has occured) in Windows Boot Manager

If there's any more information I can supply please tell me so. I probably won't be able to upload the ISO itself due to licensing reasons (corporate disk).

RikuXan

Posted 2013-11-18T14:47:43.470

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Copying the ISO or its contents to the USB doesn't make it bootable.

First make sure that your USB flash support booting.

Second you have to use a 3rd party software that allows to make your USB flash boot with your ISO file contents.

Scorpion99

Posted 2013-11-18T14:47:43.470

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You may want to give some options for software, such as Win32DiskImages

– nerdwaller – 2013-11-18T14:58:23.913

You're right, I forgot to mention that: I tried it by using Unetbootin and the diskpart step-by-step manual from http://blogs.technet.com/b/danstolts/archive/2012/07/26/create-bootable-usb-thumb-drive-key-using-diskpart-with-windows-8-media-to-install-windows-8-release-preview-or-other-operating-system.aspx - same result. I have also already booted other images from the stick successfully.

– RikuXan – 2013-11-18T15:02:05.047

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