failed to burn

[ParkerLouis42]

• Etcher version: 1.5.79
• Operating system and architecture: win 10 pro laptop
• Image flashed: 2020-02-13-raspbian-buster-full
• Do you see any meaningful error information in the DevTools?

I've tried two different holders with no success. says zOops something went wrong with the flash. it happens right at the beginning

[icanc0]

same issue but it can actually validate
but the partition wont show

[lurch]

@icanotc What exactly do you mean by "the partition wont show" ? Note that Windows is unable to access Linux-format partitions.

[icanc0]

@lurch its "not partitioned" under windows

[lurch]

@icanotc Depending on which image you're writing, it might be a variant of this problem? https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/blob/master/docs/USER-DOCUMENTATION.md#flashing-ubuntu-isos

[icanc0]

@lurch nope i tried several images and rufus never gives me a problem

[lurch]

@icanotc That's because Rufus works in a different way - it formats the drive first, and then extracts the files out of the raw image onto the formatted drive. The same way as unetbootin works #413
However this approach only works with Linux images in a specific format.

Etcher works by just copying the raw image directly onto the drive - the same way as Win32DiskImager works. This approach works with any disk image.

@thundron Seems like this might be a good addition to the FAQ?