I have one new laptop that doesn't see one usb bootable device. The usb is a 1G with Mint8 on it that works on plenty of other systems. This is a newer HP laptop core i7 that see's two other flash drives and tries even to boot to my older flash install (only has syslinux no other files) but doesn't show the newer one in bios boot order or boot order choice F9.

It will work correctly under windows so the system does see it.

Any ideas on how to that that single drive to show up in order to boot to it?

Did power down, remove all usb except this one, tried to see if it fell under hard drives instead of usb.

Oh, well. Thanks anyway.

I'm going to guess one of two things.
One is some oddity of the drive.

Or it was somehow seen as a usb cd or usb zip or such and that is why it is not viewed as a bootable usb flash.