Etcher Portable Fails to write Tails to three USB drives with no error code or msg other than "failed".

balenaEtcher
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Hello,

Etcher Portable version 1.5.122.0
Windows 10 version 10.0.22000.194 (Dev Insider version)
Debug output included below

Having trouble writing a Tails image to any USB drive I try and there is no error code or message other than it failed.

Etcher
Etcher1202×761 60.3 KB

It seems to be a write permissions error but I ran as Admin so it shouldn’t be. Also has made the USB drives unusable. Tried reformatting but doesn’t recognize any drive after the Etcher fails. Only way yo recover is to use DiskPart utility.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Object Output
{
“results”: {
“bytesWritten”: 0,
“devices”: {
“failed”: 1,
“successful”: 0
},
“errors”: [
{
“name”: “Error”,
“description”: “Lexar USB Flash Drive USB Device”,
“code”: “EPERM”,
“syscall”: “write”,
“errno”: -4048,
“device”: “\\.\PhysicalDrive1”
}
],
“sourceMetadata”: {
“size”: 1185939456,
“name”: “tails-amd64-4.22.img”,
“blocks”: [
{
“blocks”: [
{
“offset”: 0,
“length”: 1185939456
}
]
}
],
“blockmappedSize”: 1185939456
},
“averageFlashingSpeed”: null
},
“cancelled”: false,
“skip”: false
}

Trace output

Wed Sep 22 2021 13:37:57 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) Done ({“image”:{“size”:1185939456,“name”:“tails-amd64-4.22.img”,“hasMBR”:true,“partitions”:[{“offset”:1048576,“size”:1183842304,“type”:“C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B”,“guid”:“34BF027A-8001-4B93-8243-1F9D3DCE7DE7”,“name”:“Tails”,“index”:1}],“extension”:“img”,“path”:“C:\Users\Henry\Downloads\Torrents\Finished Downloads\tails-amd64-4.22-img\tails-amd64-4.22.img”},“drives”:[{“size”:16016998400,“isVirtual”:false,“enumerator”:“USBSTOR”,“logicalBlockSize”:512,“raw”:"\\.\PhysicalDrive1",“error”:null,“isReadOnly”:false,“displayName”:“D:\”,“blockSize”:512,“isSCSI”:false,“isRemovable”:true,“device”:"\\.\PhysicalDrive1",“busVersion”:“2.0”,“isSystem”:false,“busType”:“USB”,“isCard”:false,“isUSB”:true,“devicePath”:null,“mountpoints”:[{“path”:“D:\”}],“description”:“Lexar USB Flash Drive USB Device”,“isUAS”:false,“partitionTableType”:“mbr”}],“driveCount”:1,“uuid”:“7870b0cf-0006-487b-9e58-38a5edeaec2f”,“status”:“finished”,“flashInstanceUuid”:“7870b0cf-0006-487b-9e58-38a5edeaec2f”,“errors”:[{“name”:“Error”,“description”:“Lexar USB Flash Drive USB Device”,“code”:“EPERM”,“syscall”:“write”,“errno”:-4048,“device”:"\\.\PhysicalDrive1"}],“devices”:{“failed”:1,“successful”:0},“bytesWritten”:0,“sourceMetadata”:{“size”:1185939456,“name”:“tails-amd64-4.22.img”,“blocks”:[{“blocks”:[{“offset”:0,“length”:1185939456}]}],“blockmappedSize”:1185939456},“sample”:0.1,“applicationSessionUuid”:“db733cc5-971f-43bc-89d6-5c8792878c08”,“flashingWorkflowUuid”:“f9e7f0ed-faaa-4223-8008-855e34f129d1”})

4

The most likely culprit then, even if you are running as Admin, is some other security setting, Windows Defender, or other anti-malware application interfering with the ability to write to the media. I have flashed that exact image successfully in the past, so, I suspect something local on your machine is interfering. :neutral_face:

6

Hello, can you please provide the logs by opening the developer tools (Ctrl+Shift+I) and attempting to flash again?