When I click a movie to view it, Gxine open and start in a small window, then it expands to full screen and hangs up the computer. Not even the first frame of the movie is shown. The only way to get out of it is by powering off the PC. I tried different hardware platforms and movie formats with the ...

try the dd copy command. it should make an exact copy of the original flash. Remember to check the boot flag with fdisk.