USB Drive not found on Windows 7

[Mark Sheppard]

I'm trying to install an ISO onto my USB stick on Windows 7, but unetbootin-windows-555 isn't finding the stick. It's recognised by Windows 7 fine and I've just reformatted it to FAT32, but the "Drive:" dropdown menu has no entires when the "Type:" dropdown menu is set to "USB Drive". Is there maybe a size limitation as my USB stick is 8 GB?

[Grady Layton (gwlayton)]

I'm having the same issue with random USB drives too. Doesn't seem to matter whether they're 2GB, 4GB or 8GB. Not really sure what the common factor is, as this happens on my work PC and my laptop. Both are running Windows 7 64-bit. I don't have the issue when I boot into Ubuntu and use unetbootin from there.

[Rune Hatlø (rune-ha)]

if you use usb 3.0
can you plz try to plug it in to an usb 2.0 slot?
i had that problem on usb 3.0 (becaus i didnt install the drivers for usb 3.0)
installing drivers for usb 3.0 fixed my problem.

[Ryan Marsh (ridius)]

I'm having the same problem as well. unetbootin will not display my USB drive at all. Here's some detailed info about my setup

OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit
Port: USB 2.0
USB Drive: SeaGate FreeAgent GoFlex Pro 500GB (Write Caching Disabled)
    Partition 1: 4GB FAT32 Bootable
    Partition 2: 462GB NTFS

Here's the funny part, if I boot into a Linux LiveCD (Parted Magic) and download/run unetbootin... it works fine.