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#BALENAETCHER BREAKING FLASH DRIVE INSTALL#
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#BALENAETCHER BREAKING FLASH DRIVE WINDOWS 10#
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#BALENAETCHER BREAKING FLASH DRIVE WINDOWS 10#

I was able to see that the "bad" drive was formatted in msdos which windows 10 was reading as RAW and would not format. Note * it won't have a drive letter, but it will have the size of the drive space to identify it, in my case, this "bad" drive was the one with 29.4GiB (my corrupted 32GB) your value may vary. Found the "bad" USB in the GParted drop down menu and selected it. Was pleasantly surprised to see GParted installed in the menu, clicked on GParted.

#BALENAETCHER BREAKING FLASH DRIVE FULL#

After full linux boot, installed "bad" USB drive.Logged in to the linux "TRY LIVE" version of elementaryOS and clicked the applications menu.

#BALENAETCHER BREAKING FLASH DRIVE ISO#

Rebooted into BIOS with my appropriate "F"key (each computer is different google your motherboard or laptop manufacturer for BIOS boot info if it isn't on the flash screen), selected USB ISO as my primary boot option, saved & exited. Inserted the bootable ISO for elementaryos5.0stable drive.I removed the "bad" USB from my computer and set it aside.I used the following (Rufus3.3 + elemetaryOS 5.0 stable 20181016) and created bootable elementary OS. You won't see the drive letter on most Linux OS's, but the file size will be there.ĭownload Rufus or Unetbootin (I don't recommend using Etcher again) to create another USB ISO file.ĭownload a Linux Distro with GParted installed (elementary OS 5.0, Debian, LinuxMint)Ĭreate Bootable Linux copy with Rufus or Unetbootin. The reason you want 2 different sizes, is so you can easily recognize these drives once inside Linux.

In my case, I had a known "good" 64GB drive and my "bad" 32GB drive that Etcher had bricked. And last, your "bad/bricked" Etcher created USB. Your computer, another "good" USB drive with a different size than your "bad" drive, that is reformatted and empty. I do recommend using a linux distro that has GParted installed (like elementary5.0, Debian, LinuxMint) because you can copy and paste files from your internal hard drive to the "bad" usb after you format it with GParted to check if the USB is mounted and is functioning correctly. So, I ended up using the GParted (version 0.30.0) on the live linux version of elementary OS 5.0 stable edition on a Live USB. I attempted to use all the Windows 10 utilities CMD prompt, diskpart, device manager, disk management, none of them worked!!!! I would see it in "disk list", select it, but "clean" would fail with Unfortunately, AOMEI still could not activate or assign letters to my bad USB, and the "HP USB Storage Tool" didn't even "see" the drive after I removed it and reinstalled because Windows and AOMEI could not attach a drive letter.

all Green, if you have Red Sectors, your USB is done and this method will not work. I tried AOMEI Partition Assistant and scanned my drive for bad sectors.

#BALENAETCHER BREAKING FLASH DRIVE INSTALL#

I've never done a fresh install and I have all current updates as of. My system is Asus G752, i7 6700HQ, 64GB DDR4 RAM, 1TB NVMe Samsung 970 Pro, Just wondering if you ever got this fixed.Įtcher did the same thing to me when I was trying to create an Iso for ElementaryOS5.0. How is a program like Etcher supposed to completely kill a USB drive? That's not supposed to happen am I right? The USB drive was working like a charm before the last deadly write by Etcher.

AOMEI Partition utility (funnily enough this actually seems to format the drive fine but in Disk Management it shows as RAW).

regedit tweak to prevent drive write protection.

The HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool, usually my lord and saviour, now tells me the USB is write protected. When I want to format it in windows it just won't work. However, after the last time I wrote the same image to the drive with Etcher, things changed. I had some trouble everytime to get the stick formatted in Windows again, I had to go into diskpart and "clean" the drive two times before it was formattable by windows again. No problem, since the stick boots fine and I assume windows can't read it because it's formatted as ext4. Everytime it finished I was left with an unreadable drive by windows. I've been flashing Ubuntu and Pop!_OS images to my Sandisk 64GB stick the past few days.