# Drive Contains Image

**URL:** <https://forums.balena.io/t/drive-contains-image/5452>\
**Category:** balenaEtcher\
**Created:** [February 26, 2019, 3:44am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/drive-contains-image/5452 "2019-02-26T03:44:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tommy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@Tommy](https://forums.balena.io/u/Tommy)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 3:44am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/drive-contains-image/5452/1 "2019-02-26T03:44:22Z")

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I have the latest Elive OS 32 bit install it is recommended to use Etcher. Unfortunately I keep getting the message “Drive Contains Image”, it does no, it was erased and reformatted to fat 32. What do I do now?

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**Author:** ![sradevski](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/sradevski/32/1609_2.png) [@sradevski](https://forums.balena.io/u/sradevski)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2019, 1:42pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/drive-contains-image/5452/6 "2019-02-28T13:42:07Z")

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Hi Tommy,

We have generally seen that message when the drive you are trying to write an image to is the same drive you are reading the image from. There are several issues in the Etcher repository on this, with more discussions and workarounds.

> <https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/issues/2576>

  

> <https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/issues/2281>

  

> <https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/issues/2417>

Let me know if any of these helps you solve the issue. If not, just reach out again and we will investigate it further.

Thanks!