# Etcher killed my USB stick

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**Category:** balenaEtcher\
**Created:** [September 10, 2018, 11:20pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/etcher-killed-my-usb-stick/3933 "2018-09-10T23:20:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kevyn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/kevyn/32/1522_2.png) [@Kevyn](https://forums.balena.io/u/Kevyn)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 1:49am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/etcher-killed-my-usb-stick/3933/18 "2019-01-27T01:49:11Z")

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Saw the same thing as everyone here described, but if you stick the USB stick into the PC to be installed, everything boots right up. Windoze doesn’t recognize Linux file systems so it only sees the boot partition.

USB Drive: SanDisk Ultra Fit 128GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive - SDCZ43-128G-GAM46  
ISO FIle: linuxmint-19-cinnamon-64bit-v2.iso  
Host OS: Windoze 64

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