Flash Failed - repeatedly Home Assistant

balenaEtcher
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Hello… I am new to this forum…

I have just got a new 1TB micro sd card and I am trying to flash Home Assistant. I go through the steps without any issues and the flash sequence commences. It get to the last step “Finishing” and reports Flash Failed!
Balena Etcher
Version = 1.5.120

Installing an Home Assistant image by url https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/releases/download/6.0/haos_rpi4-64-6.0.img.xz

Running Windows 10 Pro

SanDisk 1TB A2 card.
logs attached
etcher_log.txt (101.8 KB)

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Hi @apz4, first of all welcome to the balena forums :slightly_smiling_face:

Thanks for the context about your setup and the error logs. Reading the logs, we see Validation error after the flashing is done. We saw similar issues reported on Windows 10: Lock the drive to prevent failure on verification · Issue #3197 · balena-io/etcher · GitHub
In short, the data Etcher reads from the device is not exactly the same as the one in the disk image that was written.

In the most of the cases when we see this issue, the flashing has been successfully done actually. Although the verification fails, you might still use the card. Have you tried it?

Right now we don’t have a solution to offer and we are tracking the issue on our end. As a workaround, besides trying it with a different SD card, you could look into following the instructions here How to prevent creation of “System Volume Information” folder in Windows 10 for USB flash drives? - Super User .

Let us know how it goes.