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Hi I have used my Corsair Flash Voyager GT 16GB as a boot drive many times, bur recently it has refused to want to boot any OS, It just displays this blinking hyphen.

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    I never managed to properly boot off my Corsair Flash Voyager GT 16GB so +1 for interesting question!
    – AndrejaKo
    Commented Aug 23, 2010 at 12:21
  • It's something with your BIOS. Check to see what kind of usb bootable devices it can work with.
    – lukemook
    Commented Apr 18, 2012 at 3:44

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Did you try to use diskpart in order to make it bootable?

It should look something like this:

DISKPART> SELECT DISK 1
Disk 1 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> CLEAN
DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk.

DISKPART> CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
DiskPart succeeded in creating the specified partition.

DISKPART> SELECT PARTITION 1
Partition 1 is now the selected partition.

DISKPART> FORMAT FS=FAT32 QUICK
100 percent completed
DiskPart successfully formatted the volume.

DISKPART> ACTIVE
DiskPart marked the current partition as active.

DISKPART> EXIT

You can check guide at this blog post for better looking formating.

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  • Well actually I am trying to boot a Mac OS X Snow Leopard disk and I have restored the ISO to the flash drive but it refuses to boot even when I try to boot a Windows 7 installation
    – GamerOfFreedom
    Commented Aug 24, 2010 at 17:32
  • @GamerOfFreedom: Procedure should work regardless of operating system on it. USB drive itself is not a problem then. If it was a PC, I would recommend restoring BIOS defaults.
    – Josip Medved
    Commented Aug 25, 2010 at 8:47

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