It's the same USB stick i made previously in this thread.
Formated with Gparted to fat32 with boot flag and i used mint iso to usb after refracta2usb was problematic.
Corair 8gb USB 2.0 that i've owned for a couple of years and it's never been any problem booting live disks on both my uefi and Non-uefi machines and has also been regularly used for windows ISO installs.
fdisk -l
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Disk /dev/sdc: 7.6 GiB, 8166703104 bytes, 15950592 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
I can't read the USB stick as it doesn't show in Mint file manager though the desktop bleeps when it is inserted and removed. Users have also mention on the Mint forum that they can't see their USB stick after using the (mint iso to usb) tool so i don't know if it is written i some way with DD as a hidden boot disk to protect it.
I've booted loads of times this morning choosing different refracta boot option such as standard, text prompt and load toram and it's worked perfectly and shown the correct refracta login everytime instead of the cinnamon login, so it seems to be a one off glitch at the moment that happened to repeat itself a few times in a row for that particular session.
This is a pure guess unless it's not possible but i wonder if it is Mint 18 Beta itself that was the problem that may have caused a glitch or some type of boot collision because i've noticed when booting from Hardrive that sometimes Mint shows the Nvidia logo at the bootup and other times without any rhyme or reason it just shows the standard Mint dots on a black screen loading , so obviously being a Beta it's showing that it is buggy.
http://blog.linuxmint.com/Mint 18 Final was released last week so i need to find time to install it to remove that as a bug factor.