I've destroyed 3 USB flash drives trying to image them with Windows ISOs. WTH?

[Blintok]

I have had this happen on flash drives. Sometimes it shows 0 bytes available. Sometimes it shows like 2g available (on a 32g drive) Drive Manager does not fix it. Cannot delete partition and make new one.

found out that the command "Diskpart" works great.

Run diskpart
list disk
Note the disk number that corresponds to your USB drive (it should be obvious going by size)
select disk X where X is the number from step 4
list partition - There should be two, numbered 0 and 1, each about 7 GB
select partition 0
delete partition
select partition 1
delete partition
create partition primary
exit

http://superuser.com/questions/536813/how-to-delete-a-partition-on-a-usb-drive


ps. I use ImageUSB to create from an ISO - used it for both Win10 and Ubuntu. no problems.

 

[C1]

A possibility is that it is because the USB stick is formatted as FAT32. (Some OSes and even sticks wont allow formatting differently.) If the ISO exceeds 4GB then there will be an error or stop. The partition on the stick might also then become "hosed."

Try using exFAT.