I need some help

[gamegammerlv1]

Soo i wanted to jailbreak my iphone. i downloaded the iso and wanted to try etcher. it said it was completed but with an error. and then it split my usb into 3 VERY small parts. can anyone help me?

[thundron]

Hi, the partitions you see are those of the image you just flashed. If the error you saw at the end was a verification failure, it means that the USB you flashed could have some bad sectors and/or the data read back after writing was not the same. In that case, I would advise changing target/reader/port/cable (one of them can cause this issue) and then re-trying. If you’re on Windows, that could also cause some false-positives due to Windows creating some sub-folders when switching from flashing to verifying.

[gamegammerlv1]

i dont really want it again. i just want to save my usb and delete the other partitions. everytime i plug it in it spams me with frormat disc boxes . i cant format them, becase it says its protected by something. and in disk management i cant do anything either

[gamegammerlv1]

i dont really want it again. i just want to save my usb and delete the other partitions. everytime i plug it in it spams me with frormat disc boxes . i cant format them, becase it says its protected by something. and in disk management i cant do anything either

[thgreasi]

Hi,
Can you clarify what issue you are facing while trying to use the disk management?
Let me point you to this highly detailed step-by-step comment about how to bring external storage media back to a single windows readable format:

balena ruined my micro sd

Greetings! koyaanisqatsi is correct in the sense that “you can’t get there from here!” Assuming you’re flashing a Raspberry Pi image, (like a version of Raspbian), you will end up with two partitions: A very small FAT32 partition that is read by the device at initial boot, and is later re-mapped to the /boot part of the root file system. It’s usually not any larger than a couple of hundred megs in size. A much larger ext4, (Linux), partition that can grow to occupy the entire rest of the ca…

Alternatively let me also point you to our recent blogpost about “recovering” USB Drives that ended up in such state after flashing an iso:

Etcher broke my USB stick … or did it?

Kind regards,
Thodoris

[gamegammerlv1]

So i have those 3 partitions. i found the unalocated space and made a new partition. but when i try todo anything with them, it just says ‘‘help’’. and thats it. im gonna link a video of it.

[georgiats]

Hey @gamegammerlv1.
Linking a video will really help us to troubleshoot.
Let us know once you have more and we’ll be happy to assist you further.

Georgia

[gamegammerlv1]

AND NOW THERES A NOTHER PROBLEM. i cant upload the video. it gives me an error. ima give you the video link. https://streamable.com/psfd00

[gamegammerlv1]

i want my usb back. pleaseee

[curcuz]

Hi Francis, from the video linked, I see you are trying to format within the single partition dialog, which is not what we suggest doing in our blogpost - did you try the steps described in https://www.balena.io/blog/did-etcher-break-my-usb-sd-card/? what you see in the video is just Windows not supporting the partitions file-system. A clean format from disk manager as described in our blogpost will get you back with the single FAT32 partition you want back.

[gamegammerlv1]

@georgiats omg it actually worked :DDD im such a dummy tbh lol
tysm for linking me again to that page