# Tried to clone from one SD to another and corrupted both SD cards, can't reformat either card using windows.

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**Category:** balenaEtcher\
**Tags:** raspberrypi3\
**Created:** [November 17, 2020, 12:58am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/tried-to-clone-from-one-sd-to-another-and-corrupted-both-sd-cards-cant-reformat-either-card-using-windows/212732 "2020-11-17T00:58:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![shawaj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/shawaj/32/8203_2.png) [@shawaj](https://forums.balena.io/u/shawaj)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2020, 3:15pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/tried-to-clone-from-one-sd-to-another-and-corrupted-both-sd-cards-cant-reformat-either-card-using-windows/212732/6 "2020-11-21T15:15:09Z")

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@fuzzzy05 I think this could potentially relate to [this forum thread](https://forums.balena.io/t/balena-etcher-clone-drive-now-have-two-blank-drives/213065)

Can you confirm what version of Etcher is currently installed on your machine?

And welcome to the forums - thanks for joining 🙂

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