USB memory stick question - solved

[Phil]

On 04/24/2014 02:33 AM, wcj9996 at frontier.com wrote:

>>
> As I recall, the older BIOSs were address limited to 2 GB partition
> size.  Try a <  2 GB boot partition on the large USB stick.  Once booted
> Linux can deal with large partitions.
>

Thanks Walt and everyone else who took the time to answer,

That's exactly what I was getting at, an incompatibility problem. The 
smallest USB memory stick that the local store sells is 8 GB and I 
didn't think of making a smaller partition. Just for interest sake, I'll 
give it a go.

Anyway, problem solved! I burnt a copy of disk-repair to a DVD via an 
external USB disk drive and although the internal disk won't write I 
discovered that it does read, at least on this occasion.

So my wife's game machine is now back to normal.

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Regards,
Phil