USB Creator makes USB stick not bootable for pc

nhenry1541 · February 20, 2017 at 3:18 PM

Quote from lrusak

Are you able to boot any other distro on your RPi?

I tried using the NOOBS installer too and came up with the same thing. On both pi2's. With every combination of tv, cables, power supplies. Ive seen this before where with openelec i skipped a step in the NOOBS installer where i forgot to paste a file onto the SD card. As soon as i did that it booted up. Except with this there is no "side" work you have to do. Just follow the buttons. But i have even tried on a pi2 that i have only used once or twice (purchased at the same time) and i get the same thing. All i get is a power light, sometimes one or two flashes from the (ACT) light and get the colored screen above. Which seems to me everything is working fine on the board side. Has anyone else tried to install using the latest img or even the 7.0.3 img? The img doesnt need to be extracted or anyhting like that before selecting it does it? But then if it does whats the sense of the "Easy" installation if thats not in the directions? <<Just Spitballing on that last statement.

nhenry1541 · February 21, 2017 at 12:35 AM

Quote from nhenry1541

I tried using the NOOBS installer too and came up with the same thing. On both pi2's. With every combination of tv, cables, power supplies. Ive seen this before where with openelec i skipped a step in the NOOBS installer where i forgot to paste a file onto the SD card. As soon as i did that it booted up. Except with this there is no "side" work you have to do. Just follow the buttons. But i have even tried on a pi2 that i have only used once or twice (purchased at the same time) and i get the same thing. All i get is a power light, sometimes one or two flashes from the (ACT) light and get the colored screen above. Which seems to me everything is working fine on the board side. Has anyone else tried to install using the latest img or even the 7.0.3 img? The img doesnt need to be extracted or anyhting like that before selecting it does it? But then if it does whats the sense of the "Easy" installation if thats not in the directions? <<Just Spitballing on that last statement.

See this is why you cant trust users. Apparently I do NOT have a raspberry pi 2. I have a raspberry 1 b+? I assumed this was the second raspberry pi considering i owned the first one then ordered the second one. Well i only have 1 set of USB ports. So i must be an idiot, i mean User. Im second guessing my career in IT now. Im going to cry myself to sleep. But first Ill setup my Libreelec. Thanks for all the help.

**milhouse** · February 21, 2017 at 3:39 AM

Lol. Don't worry, as you're not the first to have made this mistake (hence the question, are you sure it was a Pi2). As you were so certain I think we took you at face value but maybe we should be less trusting in future - I'm starting to think we'll need to get users to post a photograph of their board next time!

nhenry1541 · February 21, 2017 at 1:16 PM

Quote from milhouse

Lol. Don't worry, as you're not the first to have made this mistake (hence the question, are you sure it was a Pi2). As you were so certain I think we took you at face value but maybe we should be less trusting in future - I'm starting to think we'll need to get users to post a photograph of their board next time!

Thats why I had to google raspberry pi 2. FYI the PI 2 has 2 sets of USB ports which can distinguish the pi 1b vs the 2. I didn't realize that there were 0, 1, 1b, 2, 3, and now 0. Jesus I'm far behind. Going to be placing an order for a 0 and x2 PI3s. So ill be back to get the actual 3 image Thanks again!

RNCTX · June 4, 2018 at 6:47 AM

Just registered to point out that this is the first result on Google for "libreelec usb not bootable" and well over a year after this thread was started, it's still... not bootable.

This is why you don't make "simple" tools that don't work. You guys need to take that non-working tool down and put up ISOs and instructions for doing things with ISOs.

**vpeter** · June 4, 2018 at 6:56 AM

RNCTX: I'm sure stick is created just fine. But you need sometimes to convince your computer to actually use it correctly. So the problem is in person behind keyboard

**chewitt** · June 4, 2018 at 7:38 PM Official Post

Annual number of user complaints vs. Daily number of USB/SD Creator downloads + Daily increase in LE active installs suggests that it's a reliable and well-used tool. In our opinion ISO files suck, but you can continue using boring desktop distro's if you prefer

Jaaxx · July 12, 2018 at 6:16 PM

Quote from RNCTX

You guys need to take that non-working tool down and put up ISOs and instructions for doing things with ISOs.

I suggest you learn to write disk images to SD/USB manually before you judge the effectiveness of a tool that does it for you. A little education goes a long way.

oaller · July 27, 2018 at 10:07 AM

Trying other ways to create a new USB bootable disk or use this software , then restart the pc to see if it is booted from the software.

**vpeter** · September 3, 2018 at 7:48 AM

Quote from belkinrouter

How do I make a USB stick bootable?

You write disk image to USB stick with a dedicated program.

**Jocke.Sve** · September 3, 2018 at 8:36 AM

Quote from belkinrouter

How do I make a USB stick bootable?

See user guide here:

Installation of LibreELEC [LibreELEC.wiki]

ikeike · May 1, 2020 at 6:05 AM

I know that this is old. I had the same issue and was able to get it to work using Rufus to create a bootable drive after decompressing the image with 7zip

**chewitt** · May 1, 2020 at 6:55 AM Official Post

If you restore bootsector.img to the USB/SD using the Creator app (or any other) it will allow Windows to 'see' an unformatted drive at full capacity again.