Instead, what I am seeing is pretty much the number of reports I'd expect from drives that coincidentally happen to fail while someone is using Rufus, which is in the order of at most 2 reports/month at worst (so 2 in a million).
As far as the drive is concerned, it's exactly the same operation as writing a file from Windows explorer: some blocks of data are erased and then written, and these blocks are decided by the controller inside the drive - Rufus cannot influence that.Īlso, I must point out that Rufus gets downloaded more than 1 million times each month, so if it was damaging drives, it would be widely reported. As I went great length to explain here, it's not because Rufus is repartitioning or reformatting a drive that it is actually doing anything special. Now, if you tried the above, the fact that you got bluescreens in your live Windows tends to indicate that the problem is with your hardware. Also what happens if you plug your drive on an USB 2.0 port? Or on a different computer? Have you tried connecting your drives to a different port, and made sure that you weren't using an extension cable? Especially with USB 3.0 drives, adding an extension cable can produce read or write errors.
In diskpart> list volume the volume is marked as "Unusable". Getting the same error message, "The system cannot find the file specified". Originally when cleaning I just got some error, but now it manages to clean it, but it still can't format it. I tried formatting it, cleaning it, etc.etc. I ran CHKDSK /F on the drive, it said everything was fine, but did nothing. Clicking on properties literally does nothing. "Change drive letter." and any type of formatting gives the same error message, "The system cannot find the file specified". It is still in computer manager (as RAW), but the options "open", "explore" and "mark as active" are grayed out. Same thing happened with that one too.Īfter I got the error message, the USB no longer showed up in the explorer. Okay, decided to test with my new flash drive. Since the USB was useless, and I read up on something the creator of Rufus had written, where he said that Rufus can't damage a drive. The drive was useless after that, I'll go into details afterwards. I'm not 100% sure it was one of those, as I was exhausted while doing this (still am), but I got some error message.
I can't remember if it's the same one as I get now ("Error: The device handle is invalid.") or "the system cannot find the file specified usb drive". I clicked start, it started and seemed to be working, but after some time I got an error message. MBR partition scheme for bios or uefi computers.
In Rufus, device name was correct for the drive I wanted to use. I try installing Zoring on the 32GB usb first. I didn't bother, I decided I'd rather go with a linux distro, and thought it'd be fun to try something other than ubuntu. The same problems with another 32GB drive of mine. Didn't work, got bluescreens telling me to run "chkdsk /f".
I've formatted it a few times and trying to get it to run a live windows 7 wherever i might be. Okay, so I bought a Kingston Datatraveler HyperX 3.0 128GB just a week or so ago. I'm on a win7 computer just so that's clear. Hi! Hope someone can help me, as far as I know, I've bricked my ~150$ USB drive.