USB Boot Issue on Thinkpad X120e

I'm having trouble booting from USB flash drives on my X120e.
The issue:
I have a usb drive plugged in with a bootable image, but when I select it from the BIOS menu, the screen just flickers and I end up back at the boot device selection menu.
I've tried different boot images, different flash drives, and different methods of copying over the ISO. (Unetbootin, and dd'ing the iso to the drive.) I plugged in a USB CDROM drive, and it booted the CD that was in the drive. Any ideas what could be going on here?
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It sounds like you are not "burning" the ISO to the memory key properly. In Windows, I use UltraISO to do that:
1. File -> Open, browse to the ISO
2. Bootable -> Write Disk Image, then click on the "Write" button.

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ricky from HK wrote:
I have just received the new 2.2ghz 15" mpb yesterday.
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hi all
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pictur below is my bios setting picture:
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hi try2ops,
Welcome to Lenovo Community Forums!
The options set under your BIOS are all set,
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Hope this helps
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This guide is not System Specific and not all of the option may show inside a certain BIOS version, Just Make sure that all optionlisted here that is available on a Lenovo BIOS is set as follows.
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Can't create Windows 7 USB boot disk

Hello, I searched but can't find a problem like mine:
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iMax 24 early 2009
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I plugged a 32gb usb disk formatted fat32 (but tried NTFS also) and have my Windows 7 iso ready in download folder, but when I start Boot Camp Assistant the first choice to create the usb boot disk is shaded. I can't select it.
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I tried what you said but it still doesnt work for me.
i allready partitionated my usb in GUID and MBR and it still not works
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External USB boot: "fs error - unable to read inode" occurs eventually

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Sirrah wrote:How do I manually mount a drive that automounts?
As root:
ntfs-3g /dev/sdX /mnt/mountpoint
or
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdX /mnt/mountpoint
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS_Write_Support
You can also pass other options to mount: (in this example drive is ext3)
mount -t ext3 -o user,rw,async /dev/sdX /mnt/mountpoint
check man mount for all the details.

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