So I have completed the steps in Etcher broke my USB stick … or did it?
to still have ALL usb thumb drives show access denied. I still am blown away that year old issues about this exist and haven’t prompted a larger response. I now have to re-image my machine but all USB storage access is broken. I hope a fix comes soon, until then I will stick with rufus.
I am trying to contain my frustration, this project is great but I can’t help but raise an eyebrow at the severity of this issues impact on the windows systems. I have ran chkdsk, and dism to recover my windows machine after this and all has failed.
Ya I think it is safe to say this project is no longer sufficiently maintained to be safe to use. I see stale posts about this same issue, the one fix is the article that has not worked. I am going to limit my vent post to this last one and just get to re-installing windows because the 5th round of dism has not done anything. Good luck with this project.
Not even a system restore resolved this issue. I used to balena etcher to flash an iso on this system and now the system is rendered USBless. No external thumb drive storage is accessible in any way still. I will limit the venting, I have done enough. Hope this gets resolved.