![]() I searched through complicated directions for fixing this, when a single person said that selecting a smaller capacity thumbdrive solved it for him/her. Harryisamazing and PaulBemter, you both gave me the confidence to believe that my bootable thumbdrives actually were bootable despite what Microsoft was telling me, and in fact, they turned out to be.Īll went well with my first try until at about step 5 of the install process I got an error message (ubi-partman crashed w/ exit code 10). So at this point what I'm considering is finally plugging in the new Lenovo, doing what I did not want to do by signing into MS Windows, and going through the entire process of downloading Mint and Etcher and creating a bootable drive all over again.ĭoes this sound like a plan that will work? Thanx in advance.Ī massive thank you to everyone for the help. Windows claims that all the drivers are current, but they probably have a bridge to sell me too. So I'm wondering what other programs on here are also out-of-date. Once I selected a newer one it worked as it should. I had trouble verifying the Linux ISO file because the version of Windows Powershell was an out-of-date one, stored alongside newer versions. I'm thinking that the problem lies with this aging computer. When I did attempt to reformat one of these non-functioning (supposedly bootable) drives - it wouldn't let me, claiming it was "write protected." But jubilation was short-lived when I then began to receive MS's popups telling me I needed to format the thumbdrive.ĭidn't like the original format (NTFS) or maybe the size or brand of the thumbdrive I'd used, I repeated the process with several other thumbdrives of varying other formats, sizes, brands - all with the same frustrating result. ![]() All went well until after I received the "Flash Complete" message, and rejoiced that I had created a bootable USB drive. Anyway I downloaded Mint 21, verified the ISO file, downloaded balena etcher and ran it. picking the ISO file.I'm using a 10+ yr old laptop w/ windows 10 (which may be the source of this problem) and planning to boot Linux onto a new Lenovo laptop. (Be careful, or I'll say that again! )Įtcher fails at the first stage. I have not found any Linux tools that will work correctly, though there are several who claim to work. I suspect that the Windows ISO is not a standard ISO, and that is causing the problem. Wanna try for yourself? You can download Windows 10 from Microsoft here. ![]() Again, though, Etcher should be a "simple solution" and not require building from source. If you can get Etcher in Linux to actually work to burn a working Windows 10 ISO, then please enlighten me. If Etcher needs to be run inside Windows in order to burn a Windows ISO, then you might as well use Media Creation Tool instead. I've used that USB for 2 successful installs on laptops recently. I have the latest ISO downloaded from Microsoft, Win10_21H1_English_圆4.iso, and Windows Media Creation Tool successfully burned this to a USB. Burning a Windows USB is just not worth all this trouble. I also have no interest in building it from source, but the source is slightly newer (1.5.121) than the appimage on etcher.io. The GitHub site instructions for adding a repository for Debian/Ubuntu also fails with errors on my Ubuntu-based Zorin, and I'm not interested in trying to fix this. I just downloaded the latest appimage (1.5.115-圆4) from etcher.io website and it still fails me. I think I'm one of those who say it won't work with Windows 10, and I'm afraid I have to stick with that story.
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