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. 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. If anybody has any ideas or suggestions on where to go from here, it would be much appreciated.I've been flashing Ubuntu and Pop!_OS images to my Sandisk 64GB stick the past few days. I even tried a new microSD card after I had reformatted the other one over 5 times, but the new one did not get read either. I can also see files on the SD card that "seem" correct. I thought maybe the basic Merkury SD reader I was using was not working correctly on Linux, but it worked fine on the mac. I am not sure what else to do at this point. I attempted to change which partitions were bootable as well with ldisk but that did nothing. This one is not bootable ( which seems odd to me but I am new to Raspberry Pi so I am not sure.) I have also tried using the imager from raspberry pi on my mac and ubuntu but those were not being read by the raspberry pi either. The other partition, which is shown as an EFI partition, contains. One is bootable, about 3 GB in size, named "Debian RPD M-A 1", contents are listed as ISO 9660 (version Joliet Extension), and it contains a handful of folders/files including a boot folder. When I check the SD card on Ubuntu, it seems like it should be readable. When I placed the SD card into the raspberry pi though, it cannot read the SD card (no blinking green LED light). I tried to flash the SD using etcher on my mac which completed with no errors at all. I reformatted using gparted/disk utility to a FAT32 each time I started over. The raspberry pi was able to read the SD card twice when i flashed with etcher on ubuntu (even though it failed to eject the drive after it finished), but it was not able to boot due to 2 different errors. I tried using etcher on my ubuntu machine and my mac. I wanted to use the latest version of raspberry pi OS so I used balenaEtcher to flash the downloaded latest image onto another 16 GB micro SD card. It came with a micro SD card with NOOBS and I was able to get an older version of Rasbian to load and boot up. I have just opened my raspberry pi 3 b that i got with a kit.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |