Hi Ian,
Tried that and everything looked ok until it suddenly said
can't load unionfs.ko
Failed to load unionfs module
Loading /intrd/bin/ash
Can't access tty, Job control turned off
usb 4-1 device not accepting address 9, error -110
usb 4-1 device not accepting address10, error -110 and so on, it keeps counting up from here
A work colleague of mine has a USB he uses and he booted from it perfectly on his laptop, but when I try it on mine i get the error above.