01-24-2018, 06:15 PM
A month ago I was testing out Linux Mint and created a bootable usb flash drive and then put the iso on.
Since then I wanted to delete everything off the flash drive and use it with the media creation tool to make an image of windows 10 on there.
But I'm having a problem.
I can delete and format the drive. I start the process of having the media creation tool download then copy it on to the drive then it stops saying there is an error with the device. It gives me an error message (I'll have to update this post with the exact number later as I'm not at that computer atm). So I stop the program and open windows explorer and click on the drive, immediately it says it can't read the device (I confirmed this by right clicking to show properties and it shows 0 bytes used and size is 0 bytes), and it asks me to format the device. Then I try the media creation device again and get the same problem.
Looking around the net this seems to be a common problem. Whenever people create a bootable usb drive, when they have finished with it and want to return it to being normal again, they run in to this problem. So far I've not seen anyone with an explanation as to why this happens. It's not a problem I'd heard of until running in to this situation.
Things I've done.
I format the drive with fat32.
I've formatted the drive with NTFS.
Someone said to put the media creation tool on the usb drive itself and run it from there. But that didnt work.
I've looked in the disk management program and can't see any obvious issues there.
As anyone run in to this issue and solved it?
If you want to recreate it, create a bootable usb stick and then after try using the media creation tool on that usb and you'll find the problems I have.
Since then I wanted to delete everything off the flash drive and use it with the media creation tool to make an image of windows 10 on there.
But I'm having a problem.
I can delete and format the drive. I start the process of having the media creation tool download then copy it on to the drive then it stops saying there is an error with the device. It gives me an error message (I'll have to update this post with the exact number later as I'm not at that computer atm). So I stop the program and open windows explorer and click on the drive, immediately it says it can't read the device (I confirmed this by right clicking to show properties and it shows 0 bytes used and size is 0 bytes), and it asks me to format the device. Then I try the media creation device again and get the same problem.
Looking around the net this seems to be a common problem. Whenever people create a bootable usb drive, when they have finished with it and want to return it to being normal again, they run in to this problem. So far I've not seen anyone with an explanation as to why this happens. It's not a problem I'd heard of until running in to this situation.
Things I've done.
I format the drive with fat32.
I've formatted the drive with NTFS.
Someone said to put the media creation tool on the usb drive itself and run it from there. But that didnt work.
I've looked in the disk management program and can't see any obvious issues there.
As anyone run in to this issue and solved it?
If you want to recreate it, create a bootable usb stick and then after try using the media creation tool on that usb and you'll find the problems I have.
