In one case, when a flashing tool is installed and used to create a Bootable drive for Operating Systems the ISO image is flashed in “DD” mode. using ISO files of respective Linux operating systems. A user uses these tools to create bootable flash drives for different Operating Systems such as Linux Mint, Manjaro Linux, MX Linux, Ubuntu, Windows, etc. The software flashes Operating System images to SD cards & USB drives safely and easily. Also, on windows, Linux File System is not accessible, thus, only the bootable partition of Flash Drive of few MegaBytes (~ 2 MB) capacity is visible.įlashing software tools are often used to make a Flash Drive bootable for installation of latest version of operating systems on computers. Capacity of the Flash Drive is reduced because Flashing tools create new partitions and un-allocate extra space.
Relax! Actually such tools do not damage Flash Drives.
Sometimes when you make a bootable flash drive, the flash drive is rendered unusable due to reduced capacity.
This post describes the methods to repair or restore Flash Drive which appears to be damaged or corrupt after using with flashing tools such as Rufus, Balena Etcher, Startup Disk Creator, Fedora Media Writer, Windows Media Creator Tool, etc.
