Used the version 1.4.4 of Etcher to burn linux mint ISO and the software reported that it had run and completed successfully but of course not only did it not burn the image, it also bricked my USB stick and it will only format as 2.2MB even though as of last week it was a perfectly working 128GB st…

Here’s a link to a very similar question in Rufus’s FAQ: https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/wiki/FAQ#help-rufus-damaged-my-flash-drive It stands for Etcher as well.

Hi, you can follow Restore USB drives back to full capacity ▷ Format & reset USB to re-create the partition table. For example, using the cli in windows they mention in that link that you would do: Manual Method via Diskpart – Windows: Open a command Prompt as administrator (cmd.exe) Type Disk…

Thanks to System 76 for barely compiling an installation guide, not to mention any useful FAQs or troubleshooting. I have a couple friends who play with Linux distros in dev and this is the 4th time I’ve been asked to repair a USB. And guess what? All 4 times were instances where the person used Et…

Here is a solution you can try (double cleaning with diskpart): https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/issues/1991#issuecomment-361077474

Hi all! I found a quick workaround on Mac OS X (Catalina): Open Disk Utility; Create an empty image file .dmg (File > New Image); Set the new image size as the original USB size (check the available capacity on disk); Select the filesystem you need ( I used ExtFAT for my needs) Open Etcher; Selec…

I recently used a USB stick as a boot to install the latest Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS and everything went well. But it seems like after I was done flashing the popos iso onto my USB stick, it seems like the windows 10 cannot find the USB anymore even though its plugged in, i know that etcher delete the exis…

Hey man, thank you. This thing actually fixed.

Actually, did you see that when you try to etch windows it gives a warning saying that it needs special processing to be made bootable? Linux Mint is similar to Windows, its code also needs the special processing.

i have your same usb and the same problem occured to me, can you please help me and tell me how to fix it?

My analyze is that my problem was actually not that flashing had failed. My problem was that when I after flashing checked the USB-stick in macOS File manager, I could not see all files. But that is because macOS do not recognize “Linux files”. So now afterwards, I believe all was ok. I have used Et…

Etcher killed my USB stick

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tuxed August 2, 2020, 3:23pm 108

Your USB stick is not damaged…It’s just that the Linux Mint ISO is creating partitions for making it bootable (for UEFI). It does the same on other OS installed on Legacy.

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Etcher killed my USB stick

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