lhanks for the response. I understand what you are saying. but I was burning an arch linux iso from may 2020 and it always booted up fine in legacy mode. just recently it doesn’t anymore. It’s actually very weird because any image I’ve burned within the last week or so, the same result. Machine is not in UEFI mode. so they just don’t boot anymore. I have to go into a win 7 vm and use rufus and that works fine. Like I said earlier, I have never had a problem with etcher before other than like in the last week and it’s the same version that was fine before and now, not fine. very strange