Balena Etcher portable v. 1.5 102 windows not recognizing USB stick

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Hi all,

I am trying to flash a Linux mint.iso with Etcher; but whenever I select the file, the USB stick is not available as a selection. Are there any reasons for this?

Lexar USB Flash drive 32GB

PC Specs

Intel Atom CPU N270 @ 1.6 GHZ

1GB Ram

32-bit OS

Win-7 Pro

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Hello,

  • have you tried another USB drive?
  • what version of etcher are you using?
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I have not tried another USB drive; but what is the reason why my current USB drive will not work? I’m using version 1.5 102.

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Hi, is the USB drive appearing under the Windows Device Manager? Is it accessible for other applications like the file explorer?

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The USB drive does appear under the Windows Device Manager and it is accessible for other applications.

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Hi, thanks for that information. Could you please check if there are additional logs?
On Windows, press ctrl+shift+i, it will open a window called Developer Tools - select the console tab.

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I believe the program has issues with large storage USBs (anything more than 8GB) from what I have read from other complaints. So I tried another program and it solved my problem; but thanks for the responses.