Lenovo Y410 not booting with Bootable USB

[vihara]

Hi All,

I have window vista and I am trying to replace it with Window7. I have a bootable USB and used the tool poweriso to create bootable usb drive(from window7 iso) with my 8Gb Transcend.

Yesterday ,I used the same 8GB Transcend USB to install Window 7 on my friend's Dell laptop;It worked perfectly.

Today I was trying to do it on my Lenovo Y410.

My laptop does show the USB in boot options( I put it as the top option) but Once I try to boot my device with my USB, I get a white cursor with black screen.

Is there any problem with Lenovo Y410. Can someone help me with this?

Edited April 8, 2012 by vihara

[cdob]

MBR or partiton boot code dosn't match BIOS layout.

Try diskpart to prepare the USB drive.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/234.how-to-deploy-windows-7-from-a-usb-drive-en-us.aspx

Or use a sticky tool.

[tain]

Also try hitting F12 at boot for a device selection menu. Some Lenovos have that enabled by default, others there is an option for it in the BIOS.

[vihara]

MBR or partiton boot code dosn't match BIOS layout.

Try diskpart to prepare the USB drive.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/234.how-to-deploy-windows-7-from-a-usb-drive-en-us.aspx

Or use a sticky tool.

Dear cdob,

Still the bootable USB is not working .

I did these steps:

Using diskpart:

Clean USB drive

Create primary partition

Format partition as FAT32

Set partition as active

Copy DVD files or extract official ISO onto the drive

Boot PC from USB and install

I did all the above steps

Open the command prompt

Type: diskpart

Type: list disk

This will show all connected disks, their disk numbers, connection status and disk size

Using the sizes, determine which disk is your USB drive and remember its disk number (i.e. Disk 2)

Type the following commands: (where X is the disk number of your USB drive)

sel dis X

clean

cre par pri

active

format fs=fat32 Quick Format

exit

+

I made an image using daemon tools and copied the files into USB drive

[wimb]

Try to use BOOT_USB.exe to Format Stick with NTFS FileSystem

and have the CHS Knockout Patches applied which are probably needed in your case.

http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=24424

http://reboot.pro/5306/page__st__215

Edited April 9, 2012 by wimb

[vihara]

Try to use BOOT_USB.exe to Format Stick with NTFS FileSystem

and have the CHS Knockout Patches applied which are probably needed in your case.

http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=24424

http://reboot.pro/5306/page__st__215

Thanks wimb,cdob and tain for your precious help !! It worked with the steps suggested by cdob and F12 Key press;)

Edited April 9, 2012 by vihara