Intel® Upgrade Service — USB bootstick error: unable to find a medium containing a live file system

Intel® Upgrade Service

USB bootstick error: unable to find a medium containing a live file system

Scenario
Using the boot USB media, the system starts to boot but stops with the message: "unable to find a medium containing a live file system"

Possible solutions

You need to use a USB port that is not set to USB3.
On some BIOS versions, you may also have to turn off fast boot.

This applies to:

Intel® Upgrade Service

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Solution ID: CS-032537
Last Modified: 09-Jun-2011
Date Created: 07-Jun-2011