Fixing a USB Flash drive that has been “corrupted” by balenaEtcher.

Recently I used balenaEtcher to create a bootable Linux drive. It is a nice Windows program that simplifies the process of creating Linux disks and is recommended by some Linux distro vendors. After the program successfully writes a bootable Linux USB drive, the drive no longer appears correctly in Windows. That’s because a bootable USB contains certain drive partitions with filesystem types that are not visible to the Windows operating system....

May 16, 2019 · Simon