Flashing ubuntu to usb errors, flashing 100% but Validating failed

balenaEtcher
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I’m using balenaEtcher to flashing ubuntu-22.04.5-desktop-amd64.iso to a sandisk usb drive. At first the flashing goes to 100% with no issue. However, when the validating goes to 56%, it reports error that “Something went wrong. If it is a compressed image, please check that the achieve is not corrupted the writer process ended unexpectedly” Here’s the log

EtcherValidatingFailedLog.txt (31.4 KB)

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This essentially means when Etcher tries to read back the data from the USB drive and compares it with the source, there’s a difference. So, it could mean the USB drive is suffering some kind of premature failure - I’d try a different one to see if the same thing happens.