“Yes, it actually DID broke the usb stick”.
I got two of my sticks broken one by one, but the old one somehow got recovered with diskpart. But the new one that has never been used before and was bought specifically to flash Linux Mint, died for good. I checked it before flashing, it was working fine.
I tried everything, but since they don’t let new users to upload more than one media in the post, I can show only one evidence:
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Diskpart doesn’t detect it most of the time.
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Sometimes Diskpart does detect it. But I can’t select it to recover anyway:
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Rufus doesn’t detect it as well.
I wonder why on the Earth Linux Mint team advices to use the utility that does nothing but eating USB sticks one by one?
I contacted them to hopefully help others who would try it instead of good old Rufus to get a working USB stick.
After few more attempts I was able to select the disk and format it, BUT now it takes forever to be read by the system and used. So it still can be considered as “dead” because it still useless with such performance.
Avoid this USB Eater at all cost guys, but I’m afraid if you are here, then it’s already too late.