Bootcamp cant make a bootable usb drive.

Hey guys,
When i try to make a bootable disk (USB) in bootcamp, it says he cant make it a bootable usb drive.
What to do?
Please come help.
Thanks!

GIavelotto.
Make sure you download the instructions to load windows7 using bootcamp. I found that if you repeat the steps in the bootcamp assistant, you will find that it will work.
First have you managed to set up a USB install disc based on step 1. Second put the windows support software onto your hard drive or another USB stick. You need to copy the windows support software across to the USB install disc you made in step 1. Make sure you create a separate folder for the windows support folder.
Then you can proceed to step 3 to create a partition for Windows. I set it to 50% which created a 230 GB partition for Windows and 230GB partition for my Mac OS. You need to create a partition at least 100 GB for WIndows to have enough space for the software. You may want to increase this to 150GB to create enough storage for data and images.
I found that you had to make sure that you were successful in each of the steps to create a windows partition before moving to the next step. What mac notebook are you using?

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