2

I wanted to make a bootable USB drive using Rufus. I opened the program went with all the default options and I clicked start BUT what I forgot to do is to select an iso because I thought it would just make the disk bootable without selecting anything. Unfortunately it did not. It gave me an error. I do not remember it because this was about 6 months ago after I gave up in fixing it. Anyway I tried to reformat it again using diskpart and it fails. With Rufus it says "ERROR while partitioning drive" and I think that was the initial error as well. Also during the struggle I got messages from windows saying that the disk is write protected and NO, there is no switch for that on the USB pendrive.

More info:
Transcend 16 GB
Rufus 1.4.9,
Frustrated student :/

enter image description here

karel
  • 13,706
IskandarG
  • 27

3 Answers3

4

I got messages from windows saying that the disk is write protected and NO, there is no switch for that on the USB pendrive

A very common indicator that the flash memory on your USB drive became defective, and that the USB controller switched to read-only mode to give you a chance to read your data, if possible. Flash memory is not everlasting and will fail as you use it, eventually. This can happen while using Rufus or while simply copying files using Windows Explorer.

If you still have concerns that it was Rufus that damaged your flash, please see this.

Akeo
  • 7,541
0

Windows gives this kind of error, when it is unable to perform write operation on the disk.

In your case, pen drive file system might have been corrupted.

I've faced similar issue when the installation process terminated forcibly.

I had fixed pen drive using Linux system.

Boot to Linux system, open 'GParted', select your pen drive, format it in NTFS file system. By the time it finishes formatting, hopefully your pen drive would be in a working condition

Gangadhar Jannu
  • 101
-1

It kinda feels odd answering your own question. Anyway I fixed the flash by using Transcend's very own flash drive recovery software that is available on their website. I guess Ill only be buying external storage from Transcend and I would recommend everybody else to buy their products just because of this. Also, when I see lots of people saying that your flash drive became defective or something I just do not want to believe them especially when your product is still new or not that old for I have proved the 'experts' wrong right here!

Helpful links: http://www.transcend-info.com/Support/Software-3/

And Rufus did break it there is no denying that. To the creator of Rufus fix your bug and stop denying that your program is dangerous to flash drives!

IskandarG
  • 27