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.

Etcher killed my USB stick

balenaEtcher

ashir April 3, 2020, 12:26pm 68

choose this and then select target on etcher and then click on flash. this will unmount usb and issue will be resolved.

USB is undetectable after balenaetcher

My usb drive bricked and usable after clicking cancel

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Etcher killed my USB stick

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