BalenaEtcher destroyed 3 new USB drives

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Hi,

Etcher version 1.18.4
Windows 10 Home 22H2 OS version: 19045.2788

Destroyed three USB drives (two new ones, one used) before a googled and found this post.

From the event log when inserting the detroyed USB:
Device USB\VID_2101&PID_8500\5&11fbb66f&0&2 was not migrated due to partial or ambiguous match.

Same error message from all three USB devices. (Closed the etcher and can’t find anything under AppData/etcher… that can be useful)

I tried again after disabling Windows Security ransomware protection, and the flash succeeded.

Kind regards
Peter Eriksson

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You can try this step:

  1. Go to rufus website, if the diskpart method doesn’t work.
  2. Download the software, just follow the step as usual.
  3. You will see your pendrive listed, select the pendrive.
  4. Select the iso, and just press Yes as the prompt come.
  5. You will see a new drive is assigned to your pendrive and there after. Let the process been completed, and then just use your pendrive as usual.
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I was able to recover both of my USB Thumb drives by using diskpart through CMD in windows 10.

There is a lot of videos on how to use it but this is what I did:

In a CMD window type “diskpart”

DISKPART> list drive

DISKPART> select disk (#) value of the disk you want to repair, Look for the GB

…you can use the command “DISKPART> detail disk” anytime

DISKPART> clean

DISKPART> create partition primary

I was able to format the drive in windows

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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!

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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