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I've seen reports of "too big" cards having issues, lemme see what I can google
But if you have a smaller one around, try that in the meantime.
Try the fixes here:
https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/issues/3197
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"User did not grant permission" is your clue. Make sure it doesn't present you a prompt while picking the drive or while flashing that you never agree to, or that your drive is write protected.
(User is you)
I’ve tried 4 or 5 different drives. No different.
I don’t even know how to write protect a micro sd.
Try running as admin, or temporarily disabling UAC?
I’m trying Rufus. Looks to be working. At least no errors yet.
Rufus Worked!
@miklschmidt I’ll bet it a Windows 11 security issue. Nevertheless, Rufus has me rock in and rolling.
i have no problems on Win 11
Rufus doesn't do a verification pass IIRC so it doesn't catch SD card corruption issues
Brand new SanDisk Ultra 32Gb. And I tried 4 other Micro SD cards ranging from 8 Gb to 256 Gb.
8 is too small. But yeah definitely sounds like a permission issue.
In any case, corruption during writes is kinda rare (especially on new cards) so you'll be fine with Rufus.