# Balana Etcher faild in startup and now i cant recover the drive

**URL:** <https://forums.balena.io/t/balana-etcher-faild-in-startup-and-now-i-cant-recover-the-drive/16928>\
**Category:** balenaEtcher\
**Created:** [June 23, 2019, 2:59pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/balana-etcher-faild-in-startup-and-now-i-cant-recover-the-drive/16928 "2019-06-23T14:59:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![pdcastro](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/pdcastro/32/1264_2.png) [@pdcastro](https://forums.balena.io/u/pdcastro)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 8:26pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/balana-etcher-faild-in-startup-and-now-i-cant-recover-the-drive/16928/38 "2019-08-19T20:26:42Z")

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If you have access to a Linux system, the [drive recovery command advised in the Etcher documentation](https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/blob/master/docs/USER-DOCUMENTATION.md#gnulinux) is:

> Make sure the drive is unmounted ( `umount /dev/xxx` ), and run the following command as `root` , replacing `xxx` by your actual device path:
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> `dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/xxx bs=512 count=1 conv=notrunc `

If that command gives you “permission denied”, it may be because it is not being run as the root user. You can also try prefixing the command with “sudo”:

> `sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/xxx bs=512 count=1 conv=notrunc `

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**Author:** ![RandomnessX3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@RandomnessX3](https://forums.balena.io/u/RandomnessX3)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2019, 5:44am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/balana-etcher-faild-in-startup-and-now-i-cant-recover-the-drive/16928/42 "2019-08-23T05:44:23Z")

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Turns out the flash drive i bought has a known error that puts it into read only with no way of recovering so thats a bummer

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