10.8 USB stopped working

ddehr026 · Dec 6, 2012, 09:09 PM

I made a 10.8 USB bootable drive on a 8gb stick when mountain lion first came out. I used this to boot off of multiple times, as recent as a few days ago. Always worked perfect. Suddenly it's not working any more. It will either show efi boot or nothing at all, confirmed in multiple macs. Any idea what gives?

Thanks!

justperry · Dec 6, 2012, 09:12 PM

Try repairing it in Disk Utility, or do a safe boot on this, if nothing helps and there is nothing on it you need reinstall the OS on it and see if it works, if not the USB stick is dead.

ddehr026 · Dec 7, 2012, 05:09 AM

I think you're right, I'm starting to think it's the USB stick. I'm going to try it on another one and see what happens....

ddehr026 · Dec 7, 2012, 09:59 AM

Well that didn't do the trick. I'm still getting the efi boot option only, not the usual orange USB logo to boot from. I'm really at a loss here any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

justperry · Dec 7, 2012, 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by ddehr026

Well that didn't do the trick. I'm still getting the efi boot option only, not the usual orange USB logo to boot from. I'm really at a loss here any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

What exactly did you do?

ddehr026 · Dec 7, 2012, 10:26 AM

Opened the install mountain lion folder in applications, navigated to the installesd dmg file in sharedaupport, dragged it to sidebar in disk utility, restored to partition on USB stick.

That's how I've always done it, it's always been so simple... I even tried redownloading ml, thinking the dl may be corrupt....

Baffled....

justperry · Dec 7, 2012, 10:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ddehr026

Opened the install mountain lion folder in applications, navigated to the installesd dmg file in sharedaupport, dragged it to sidebar in disk utility, restored to partition on USB stick.

That's how I've always done it, it's always been so simple... I even tried redownloading ml, thinking the dl may be corrupt....

Baffled....

Dead USB stick.

ddehr026 · Dec 7, 2012, 10:39 AM

Just went out and bought a new one this morning. Same thing happened. I'll just give up on it for now... Thx for trying though

Dec 6, 2012, 09:09 PM	#1
ddehr026 macrumors 6502 Join Date: May 2010	10.8 USB stopped working I made a 10.8 USB bootable drive on a 8gb stick when mountain lion first came out. I used this to boot off of multiple times, as recent as a few days ago. Always worked perfect. Suddenly it's not working any more. It will either show efi boot or nothing at all, confirmed in multiple macs. Any idea what gives? Thanks!
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Dec 6, 2012, 09:12 PM	#2
justperry macrumors 603 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: 7 Km South of an active upside down volcano.	Try repairing it in Disk Utility, or do a safe boot on this, if nothing helps and there is nothing on it you need reinstall the OS on it and see if it works, if not the USB stick is dead.
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Dec 7, 2012, 05:09 AM	#3
ddehr026 Thread Starter macrumors 6502 Join Date: May 2010	I think you're right, I'm starting to think it's the USB stick. I'm going to try it on another one and see what happens....
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Dec 7, 2012, 09:59 AM	#4
ddehr026 Thread Starter macrumors 6502 Join Date: May 2010	Well that didn't do the trick. I'm still getting the efi boot option only, not the usual orange USB logo to boot from. I'm really at a loss here any help would be much appreciated. Thanks
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Dec 7, 2012, 10:26 AM	#6
ddehr026 Thread Starter macrumors 6502 Join Date: May 2010	Opened the install mountain lion folder in applications, navigated to the installesd dmg file in sharedaupport, dragged it to sidebar in disk utility, restored to partition on USB stick. That's how I've always done it, it's always been so simple... I even tried redownloading ml, thinking the dl may be corrupt.... Baffled....
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Dec 7, 2012, 10:39 AM	#8
ddehr026 Thread Starter macrumors 6502 Join Date: May 2010	Just went out and bought a new one this morning. Same thing happened. I'll just give up on it for now... Thx for trying though
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