Windows 10 version 1909, Etcher 1.5.109 I keep getting en error message “something went wrong. if it is a compressed image, please check that the archive is not corrupted”. while writing hassos_rpi4-64-4.13.img

Run as administrator. Make sure to format USB or SD module types to exFat before flashing. I was receiving the “Error spawning child” message until I changed the format type. Started the flashing process right up afterward.

Hi @tyo ! Could you please let us know if you see any meaningful error information in the DevTools? You can open DevTools by pressing Ctrl+Shift+I. Thanks, Georgia

I’ve also found this GH issue on the etcher repo https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/issues/2859 . Could you please also try and run etcher as Administrator and let us know if this works for you? Thanks

Thanks Georgia. Running it as administrator seems to make the difference. I am still a bit worried because of the message “Flash Complete! 1 Failed target”.

You should see a more specific message in a tooltip by hovering over the failed targets. It could be a verification error due to Windows writing an SVI folder when we switch from writing to reading data for validation

Use this option to to access give balena to sdcard and reinsert the card problem solved follow me on- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9ufAseSDfIDdbhuQa9TwdA [Screenshot (2)]

Hey @techboystoys thanks for the suggestion. @goldegg can you please try that and see if it works? Thanks

It’s working my friend. I have done with it😊

That’s great to hear, nice one :slight_smile:

Sentence mistake Use this option to give access balenaetcher to the SD CARD and reinsert the card and flash the os, problem solved

Windows 10: something went wrong

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goldegg November 7, 2020, 7:13pm 13

it is also not working

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