All USB flash drive are different, some work, some do not work. The contents of the patchstick will look like the following, if yours does not look similar or is empty, then the creation failed and you need to create again either by pre-formating two hfsplus partitions using disk utility or trying a different brand flash drive. Follow the GUI and select 'ATV Patchstick', make sure to select the correct disk and hit the circling arrows to the left of the drive menu if you insert the USB flash drive after launching atvusb-creator.
Remember that some USB flash drives just will not format correctly and if you have problems try another brand. And not only that but previous problems with launching an application into the front under all display resolutions has been resolved. That's right, two full blown OSX applications with their own AppleTV plugin to launch AND get updates. The Windows XP/Vista interim solution atv-win Note that the current version is atvusb-creator-1.0.b13 and atv-win-3.0.zip This version is comes with ssh, bin tools, and two plugins (XBMC/Boxee Installer/Launcher and SoftwareMenu). The Intel/PPC OSX version of atvusb-creator. Brought to you by the creators of atv-bootloader and many others. Creates USB flash drive based installers that include patchstick, factory restore and various LInux distributions. The uber USB flash drive creator for the AppleTV.
