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BalenaEtcher ruining my flash drives

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This happened to me with Etcher once when I was trying to flash a Raspberry Pi image. You just need to use diskpart to delete the partition(s).

 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/diskpart

 

Then, you can reflash.

 

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So BalenaEtcher has been doing this weird thing where, it only happens on Ubuntu 21.04 and 20.04 ISOs, it completely screws up my flash drive. Tried on 2 computers and 3 flash drives but it still doesn't work. It's supposed to create and write data to 3 partitions, but often it leaves 2 blank and creates one that I can't delete in disk management. 

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What can I do? (That 2.51gb is where the OS is supposed to go, the 4mb tiny one is where the bootloader goes afaik) 

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This happened to me with Etcher once when I was trying to flash a Raspberry Pi image. You just need to use diskpart to delete the partition(s).

 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/diskpart

 

Then, you can reflash.

 

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