Install ISO not flashing

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I’m having a problem with the ISO not flashing onto my USB drive so I can install it onto the HDD in my (future) NAS. I’ve tried it on etcher and Rufus on two computers using the 13.0-U6.7 and 12.8-U8.1 ISOs, and on two different 2 gb flash drives. When I flash a different bootable ISO, it works fine.

After it is flashed, the USB doesn’t show up in Windows explorer and the Disk Manager shows it as completely empty or a 2 mb partition that it doesn’t want to do anything with. If I format it, it works perfectly.

Windows 11, Etcher 2.1.0, Rufus 4.6.

Anyone know what I’m doing wrong?

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Have you tried a bigger usb drive to flash it to? I know the docs say 1gb is enough, but i find that hard to believe. I’ve never had problems with 8GB usb sticks.

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I tried again with a 32 gb one and it did the same thing.

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Ventoy seems to be working…