My USB Won't Boot Anymore

[Colin Hollenback]

Just as the title says, I can't get my USB to boot.

The first time, I used a pretty small (4GB I believe) flash drive, burned Kali Linux onto it with Rufus, and booted it. I checked my BIOS, set USB Drives to the top, disabled safe boot, enabled legacy, etc. After a few tries and messing around, I got it to launch once. I couldn't figure out how to configure it at the time, sadly.

I came back to it, leaving the settings as they were. It booted directly to Windows 10 again. Checked my settings, nope. Nothing was working, so I burned Kali to another USB, using the same procedure, giving the same results.

Have I missed something big? I don't know what I could possibly be missing that's preventing it from booting. Thanks!

 

[mcnumpty23]

try using yumi to make your usb never failed me and seen a few cases with rufus giving issues recently

http/www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/