Etcher broke my USB stick … or did it?

[carlzdooms]

I bought a set of 5 (new) usb drives specifically to have boot installation media. I am 2 for 2 on needing to repair the file structure and format them after using the balena tool. I don’t need to rescue any data … if the drive is dead, fine. But if it isn’t, let’s get an instruction list that works. I am not any kind of expert, but they did not ‘wear’ out..

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