Comment 11 for bug 1507002

There is an additional problem with the Startup disk creator. In checking for my boot error problem I considered the remote possibility that something was wrong with the 32 bit iso file. To answer the question I downloaded Xubuntu 32 bit iso file and used Startup disk creator to write it to the usb stick.

This morning I discovered that when I plugged the stick into the usb connector there was no response at all. The system didn't know that any stick was there. In /media/ilan nothing was listed. I thought the stick was damaged and I could use the guarantee, as it wasn't visible in Windows either.

Before claiming the guarantee I had to check that it was really dead. I tried Startup disk creator and that saw the stick but gave me error messages when I tried to erase it. Then I tried partition editor which also saw it. With partition editor I deleted whatever was left of the partition and created a new partition table. That fixed the problem.

So Startup disk creator did something very nasty to the stick which may well explain why it wouldn't boot.