Issues installing Windows 7 from Patriot Supersonic Boost 32GB

[ebslater26]

I'm having an issue I can't seem to make sense of. Let me lay it out.

I work in a corporate office and we use USB sticks, booting into WinPE 3.0 to push our custom windows 7 x64 image (WIM file). I injected USB 3.0 drivers to our WinPE boot files and am able to successfully image a laptop with the Patriot Supersonic sticks from a USB 3.0 port. However, when attempting to do the same from a USB 2.0 port with the patriot stick it fails. The stick mounts and I am able to see all the files it contains. I am able to push the image to the C drive but when attempting to run the command "bcdboot c:\windows" it returns Failure to copy boot files.
I attempted to use the Windows installer from the patriot stick, created with the Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool. It boots and seems to run fine, but when I get to the point where it wants to create the necessary partitions it errors out saying "Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition". Looking at the setuperr.log file I see an Error 0x06069e IBS GetMachineInfo: Couldn't find boot disk on this BIOS-based computer. Again this all works fine when booted from a USB 3.0 port. It only gives me these problems when booting from a USB 2.0 port.
I've tried manually running Diskpart and formating the main drive with the following commands:
select disk 0
clean
create partition primary
format fs=ntfs quick
active
assign
exit
but I get the same results.

I'm baffled by these results and can't seem to find anything that will help online. Any ideas?

[Gllar]

I also have been having this issue, I cant seem to fully boot into a WinPE using my 32g Supersonic USB 3.0 from a USB 2.0 port not sure if it will work on a USB 3.0 port as I don’t have any in my environment but using the diskpart commands as shown in the original post has always worked in the past on all my other flash drives including the supersonics’ predecessor (red). Has anyone found a solution?

[Gllar]

On a related note this method of making flash drives works great on the Supersonic Xpress 32GB just not the Supersonic XT 32GB. I just happen to like the case/enclosure of the XT better.

[Marshmallow]

Hi all. I'm having similar issues with my Patriot USB3 XT 16GB. While trying to install windows 7 from it I get the same response as ebslater26 - "Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition". For me it doesn't matter if I'm booting from an USB 3 or 2. If I take that exact same windows image and copy to any other of my usb drives there's no problems and windows install fully. There most be something wrong with the xt's internal driver/firmware or something along those lines. Hope someone can figure it out and if you do please respond here in this thread. Cheers!

[peebee]

Hi all. I'm having similar issues with my Patriot USB3 XT 16GB. While trying to install windows 7 from it I get the same response as ebslater26 - "Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition". For me it doesn't matter if I'm booting from an USB 3 or 2. If I take that exact same windows image and copy to any other of my usb drives there's no problems and windows install fully. There most be something wrong with the xt's internal driver/firmware or something along those lines. Hope someone can figure it out and if you do please respond here in this thread. Cheers!

I have the exact same problem. My company bought probably 40 of these drives to use for Windows 7 deployments and they're near useless since they aren't recognized by Windows PE. I've tried both WinPE 3.x and 4.x. No go with either. Doesn't matter if they're in USB 2 or USB 3 ports and I've not figured out a workaround. Kind of a bummer.