Sandisk Extreme USB 3.0 - not visible in boot menu

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Hi,

I just purchased one of Sandisk Extreme USB 3.0 drives to use it with Linux live or from time to time install Windows on laptops that does not have dvd drive. I have few pendrives already but none of the is as fast as this one so I thought it will save lots of time but… at the moment it took too much of my time to figure it out how to make it bootable. I use Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool or  Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.5.9 that works everytime with other pendrives but not this one.

I even tried to restore image of other usb to this one with USB_it tool so both are exactly the same but only other one will boot fine  where Extreme 3.0  is not even visible in bios boot menu.

I noticed that blue led light on the drive does not blink during bios post just only when it is too late.

Any ideas?  

Thanks

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Any ideas?  

Not sure what you have done to the drive at this point but check out these ideas.

  1. Read this thread starting at this posting.

http://forums.sandisk.com/t5/All-SanDisk-USB-Flash-Drives/Sandisk-Extreme-64GB-make-it-a-fixed-drive/m-p/338053#M10330

  1. Try Easy2Boot to make the drive bootable.
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Hi, try Unetbootin too. It’s what I use to make a flash drive bootable. Good luck.