# etcher is not able to write to this location of the drive

**URL:** <https://forums.balena.io/t/etcher-is-not-able-to-write-to-this-location-of-the-drive/370015>\
**Category:** balenaEtcher\
**Created:** [February 27, 2024, 12:38am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/etcher-is-not-able-to-write-to-this-location-of-the-drive/370015 "2024-02-27T00:38:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@jake](https://forums.balena.io/u/jake)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 12:38am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/etcher-is-not-able-to-write-to-this-location-of-the-drive/370015/1 "2024-02-27T00:38:53Z")

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The Balena Etcher Pro is failing to clone sd cards. I have two sd cards plugged into the BalenaEtcherPro - one source, one target. The SD cards are SanDisk 256GB same model. I get an Error message saying “Looks like etcher is not able to write to this location of the drive … usually caused by a faulty drive, SD-card reader, or USB-port.”. This happens every time. I click retry and after several attempts of the same error message it will sometimes work. However, even with balena etcher validation passing, running a cmp /dev/sdb /dev/sdb fails. I am trying to clone a base image for nvidia jetson nano. balena etcher pro version 1.14.3.

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**Author:** ![Uyoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/cab0a1/32.png) [@Uyoi](https://forums.balena.io/u/Uyoi)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2024, 8:59pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/etcher-is-not-able-to-write-to-this-location-of-the-drive/370015/2 "2024-02-28T20:59:36Z")

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Yup. Same here. What awful hardware and performance.

It’s saying it’ll take over 30p minutes to clone from 1 SD card to 5. Sandisk Extreme Pros. On windows using a generic SD card writer from WalMart, it takes 17 minutes per drive and they’re the exatct same drives.

Going to return it.