balenaetcher not working for windows

kavy · September 3, 2020, 7:54am

balenaetcher{stack:Error: User did not grant permission message:User did not grant permission.
Windows 10
balenaetcher 1.5.104
how to resolve?

robertgzr · September 3, 2020, 12:54pm

Hi, looks like your user does not have the necessary permissions to write to the disk/card you’re trying to flash. Can you run etcher as administrator?

jeff123 · September 8, 2020, 3:08am

hi, i face the same problem here, and i tried to run etcher as administrator but still get the Error: User did not grant permission message.
still don’t know how to resolve this problem.

jeff123 · September 8, 2020, 3:14am

by the way this is the error picture i capture from the developer tool.

rahul-thakoor · September 8, 2020, 5:51am

hey there,

Can you please confirm the following:

which balenaEtcher version are you using?
When you attempt to flash an image, do you see a prompt from Windows asking you to allow etcher to make changes?

Thanks

aggieNick02 · September 22, 2020, 9:11pm

Something changed between 1.5.109 and 1.5.104. 1.5.104 would elevate and prompt via UAC when I started the flash. 1.5.109 does not and gives this error.

A workaround is to run 1.5.109 as administrator.

ab77 · September 23, 2020, 12:47am

Hi there, I’ve just deployed a fresh Windows 10 x64, installed Etcher 1.5.109 and flashed an image to USB. I started Etcher normally and got an elevation prompt after hitting the flash button.

ab77 · September 23, 2020, 12:48am

Are you able to default all UAC settings and try again please?

monkeyg0d · September 29, 2020, 8:54pm

I’m having this problem also and I’ve change the UAC to the bare minimum and still get the user permission error.

edit: fixed it! It seems that controlled folder access was turned on and blocking the app, I just added the balena app to the whitelist and it worked

WhoKnew · November 5, 2020, 8:50pm

Hi,

I just installed etcher 1.5.110 on Windows 10 Home, and I am receiving the same error. Windows does not prompt to allow etcher to make changes.

I confirmed that UAC settings are at default and that controlled folder access is turned off, and that the target drive (uSD card) is not write protected.

It appears to work now, after setting the shortcut to etcher in Windows Start menu to run etcher as administrator.

FernandoMatencio · November 6, 2020, 5:56am

Thank you.
Running etcher as administrator worked for me.

Austin_404 · November 7, 2020, 8:34am

Thanks! I was having trouble trying to flash Kali Linux 2020.3 on my USB Drive. You Fixed It!

rohan.targaryen · November 8, 2020, 11:25pm

Thanks a lot!! I used Etcher as Admin on Windows 10 and it worked!

peter.senna · July 29, 2021, 1:36pm

Same problem here. Installed a fresh Windows 10 Pro, and the only way around this issue is to start cmd as administrator and then call etcher from there. Running as administrator has no effect… Tried both balenaEtcher-Setup-1.5.121.exe and balenaEtcher-Portable-1.5.121.exe.

duke7able · August 1, 2021, 4:31pm

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peter.senna · August 1, 2021, 7:20pm

Funny thing is that there was something unusual about my fresh windows installation. Some environment variables were missing, and some other details were not right. I ended up doing another fresh install in a different hardware that is considerably newer, and now everything works as expected. Very strange. But I am not a Windows guy, so… It is probably me doing something weird.

hiba_khan · April 2, 2023, 7:42am

i installed balenaetcher on my window 7 ,no error occcured but when i opened balenaetcher as run as administrartor ,a just blank page opened with no message or no error or nothing else.please fix this issue asap