Laptop not detecting bootable USB stick

[Saqman2060]

Unetbootin is very useful. I will use that or ubuntu's USB-startup-creator to create a USB bootable disk. 

Naturally, when creating a USB boot disk, you need to format the disk to contain a file system. Just like when your system boots a Linux distro, the boot loader looks for a boot partition that has the code to boot the OS. 

Unetbootin works the same way. You are writing the ISO to a partition.

When using DD, include the partition number of your USB. 

Also make sure your computer detects a USB removable disk. If not, you can't boot. Check the bios to see if you have the option to boot from a USB drive.

-----Original Message-----
From: "Nick T." <nick at nickscode.com>
Sent: ‎10/‎25/‎2014 12:08 PM
To: "ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: Laptop not detecting bootable USB stick

I am trying to install ubuntu server 14.04.1 on my laptop... I 
downloaded the 64bit version off ubuntu.com, checked the checksums(all 
matched) and used disk-destroyer to copy it on a usb stick (dd 
if=/dev/drive of=/path/to/iso). However when I tried to boot from my 
laptop it just failed saying that no bootable devices have been found. I 
tried rewriting it using disk-destroyer but same result. Got any ideas 
what is happening?

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