Oh my god same! My usb drive broke after using Etcher…I’ve flashed it many times with rufus and it still working, but not with etcher in this case bc my usb has light on it so if it’s connected it will light up and blink and when I connected to my laptop it just lights up, no blink and no pop up on windows, it popped up on BIOS but with different name “ChipFish BlnkDisk” iirc. It wasn’t detected in any device I tried.
I threw my usb away and will get a new and I will never touch this faulty app again.
Seriously fix your app, developers!
I solved this problem by installing a program in windows called “mini tool partition wizard free” and resetting completely the USB drive by recompiling his sectors with 0 or 1 (there’s an option called like that when you reset it),it worked for me and restored the usb drive.
Hope may help by figure it out
Note: In the following, the # in the sample commands is the terminal prompt. Yours may be different. Don’t type that.
And the [n] is a number that depends on your configuration. Type the appropriate number not literal [n].
I found this somewhere, but now can’t figure out where, but this worked just fine in a Mac. Just be really, really careful, since this could easily trash your system.
First, you need to be sure which disk you’re fixing. So with the disk not installed, type:
#diskutil list
That will give a list of details of each current disk, as /dev/disk0, /dev/disk1, etc.
In my experience, /dev/disk0 is an internal recovery disk and /dev/disk1 is your internal drive. You may have others.
Then insert your broken USB drive and run
#diskutil list
again. Your usb drive should now appear as an additional /dev/disk[n].
Now you’re going to zap that new /dev/disk[n]. Be very careful here. I take no responsibility if you end up killing your system, but this worked for me. The command is:
#diskutil eraseDisk FAT32 UNTITLED MBRFormat /dev/disk[n]
(Where [n] is the drive you’re recovering. And UNTITLED is just a name for the recovered disk.) #diskutil list
And that should show your USB drive as now an actual drive, and you can then use the standard Mac DiskUtils app to reformat the drive as you want.
Hey, so for anyone this might help: I am on a Mac (iMac M4 desktop), and I was able to pull my 500gb mini SD card out of this “corrupted” state by using a program called SD Card Formatter. Every other way I have personally tried (such as Disk Utility, using Windows, using other programs on Windows, etc.) claimed the card was locked and unreadable. Luckily this program came in clutch and saved my memory card.