trouble with usb live setup

Tbunny

okay. after several months of toying with the usb live programs and coming up with errors, I tried a different thumb drive with similar results. I purchased another one (sandisk) and it worked. i finally got ubuntu onto my acer. why do some flash drives not work? thanks for all the help, and I'll be around asking more questions. thank you

mfillpot

It sounds like the flash drive you were using was passing corrupt data, it could be from a bad chip or even bad communications. Despite what some people might believe flash media does degrade with use just as a standard hard drive would.

MikeEnIke

I find myself agreeing with mfillpot, this sounds like a hardware problem not a software one unfortunately.

Tbunny

Oh, it is definitely a hardware issue, but it won't come up on any diagnostic software I have. If you get errors on your flash it programs, I believe it's a hardware issue.