Help with arch liveboot usb

[woven perch]

I had made a live boot arch usb using rufus, but i encountered troubles for which i was suggested that i may use some other application to create an iso. Now, the usb has became write protected and i have no idea how to fix it, is there a way i can fix this?

[last breach]

Dosent matter

Burn it anyways

I use etcher

Many people dont reccomend it many people do

You remove the write protection by gdisking it

That's what I did

Then make it into fat 32 format

[woven perch]

I will try that

[woven perch]

gdisking? could you elaborate a bit ?

[last breach]

Gdisk /dev/yourusb

To find the block of your usb use lsblk

Have you made an arch iso yet?

[woven perch]

it has an arch iso but i couldn't type anything in tts so i was told to reinstall it

to do that i need to remove the write protection which i will try doing through etcher

[last breach]

You dont need to

Etcher does it automatically

[woven perch]

I don't seem to quite get what you mean

[last breach]

Never used etcher before?

I mean you dont have to remove write protection, etcher would do that automatically when burning archiso in

It's very easy to use

[woven perch]

Ah, for now i need to just remove the write protection and format the usb completely

i would install the iso later on

[last breach]

Oh, if then etcher wont help

[woven perch]

oh.

[last breach]

Are you free right now?

[woven perch]

I am indeed free right now.

[last breach]

Plug in the usb to your device

You are using windows right?

[woven perch]

yeah

plugged in

[last breach]

Open explorer

If that's what its called

I forgot

The files app

[woven perch]

yeah

[last breach]

In there locate your usb and go to properties

[woven perch]

now i am guessing i should try to format?

[last breach]

Ah yes sure

[woven perch]

aight did that

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You might see an option read only

[woven perch]

if i try to format, it just says this

[last breach]

Uncheck that and now it's no longer write protected

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Do you see this?

[woven perch]

no.

[last breach]

It would be there if it was a file

Gimmi a sec

[woven perch]

yeah sure

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My idea was using diskpart

Removing the entire volume of the usb

And making a new one with fat32

I know how to do this in linux, windows is the tricky part

Lemme read a sec

[woven perch]

i think i have tried that

it did not work

[last breach]

I'll come back in 5 min, I have to go for maghrib prayer

[woven perch]

for diskpart, if i recall correctly, it was a cmd program and i tried it but it did not work

[woven perch]

sure !

[last breach]

Let me try diskpart on my usb so that I know what I'm telling you

There are other apps that could do this easily but are mostly paid

[woven perch]

sure

[last breach]

Alright

[blissful ridge]

so you there?

im the guy above btw

on my pc tho

@woven perch

open disk management

then open cmd on administrater

type diskpart

then select the volume of your usb

by typing ' select volume (the number your arch is in)

to find which volume your arch is in refer disk management, and then type volume list, if you find it similar in storage then thats it. select that

i have a easier but more time consuming way tho

there is more after this which all explain when you are online

[last breach]

Yes one idea is making a live boot of gparted, another idea is making a live boot of arch

Both are the same but you tell which you prefer

I'll be back in 30 min and explain how to

[woven perch]

Ok i will do this

[last breach]

You doing rn?

[woven perch]

i will do it tmrw i have to work now 😄

[last breach]

Okay

Okay

[blissful ridge]

wanna do it now?

did you do it alredy?

[woven perch]

Sorry about that i was busy

I will ping you when i will be doing it

[blissful ridge]

hey dont be sorry, let me know when you want to

[woven perch]

Hi

I will finally be doing it later today !

[blissful ridge]

No way 2 months later 😭😭😭

Lmao

How did you find the support again lmao

[woven perch]

I have no idea brother

anyway

[woven perch]

disk management?

or just open diskpart

[blissful ridge]

Do you have linux? It's easier there for me

[woven perch]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/773934948050272288.gif?size=48&name=gx_CatLoad&quality=lossless

actually no

[woven perch]

Wait actually etcher could remove the write the protection as you mentioned, right?

automatically

[blissful ridge]

Not sure about that

We can do diskpart

Are you ready right now??

[blissful ridge]

lets do it right now?

[woven perch]

MMMMmMM

Okay yeah

Ping me when online and I'll try to be on pc then

[blissful ridge]

oh im sorry i forgot about it

can we do it right now?

[woven perch]

yeah sure

[blissful ridge]

like rn?

les go

check if you still have the love boot in the usb by booting into it

[woven perch]

just let me get my drive

[woven perch]

the problemm for it was that i couldnt just type in tty at all

[blissful ridge]

oh i see

[woven perch]

i was told by someone it might be a rufus and problem and should use something else

[blissful ridge]

no probs we can do diskpart as i have done it before now

[woven perch]

should i check

[blissful ridge]

nah its alr

open windows

[woven perch]

done

cmd?

[blissful ridge]

yes

administative

[woven perch]

typing diskpart to run diskpart

[blissful ridge]

yes

then type "list disk"

and find the device you wanna use, you may know from its storage

[woven perch]

ok yeah its disk 1

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select Disk 1

[woven perch]

done

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list disk again

and send screenshot

[woven perch]

yeah its selected

[blissful ridge]

nice

type

clean

sorry about my bad internet, im downloading cold war on steam rn lol

[woven perch]

unpopular opinion but liked it story pretty much lol

[blissful ridge]

you play it??

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[woven perch]

i complete the campiagn once

[blissful ridge]

can you redo it with me one day?

try running chkdsk /f [insert drive letter]

[woven perch]

iirc i also encountered this problem when used ( i think kingston's tool ) to try to clean

[blissful ridge]

outside diskpart

[woven perch]

letter?

[blissful ridge]

yes

[woven perch]

"F" ig?

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yes F

[woven perch]

i no longer own the game tho

[blissful ridge]

why?

was it gamepass?

[woven perch]

no it was on my previous xbox account which i no longer own now

which may sound weird but yeah

[blissful ridge]

did you do it?

after that reboot

[woven perch]

this

write protected

should i still reboot

[blissful ridge]

back to diskpart

[woven perch]

mhm

[blissful ridge]

now select the device i believe Disk 1

done?

after that type

disk clear readonly

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list volume

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select 5

type select Volume 5

[woven perch]

ok teag its selected

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type delete

[woven perch]

i am guessing delete volume

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try that

when i did it i only had to do delete tho

[woven perch]

well well look who it is

:<

[blissful ridge]

darn

try rebooting

do you have a different usb slot?

[woven perch]

actually can i come back in about ~30 minutes

i have to go right now

[woven perch]

yeah

i am guessing you want me to try the same but different slot?

[blissful ridge]

sure

[blissful ridge]

yes

by slot i mean like on the other side of the pc

if its on right then try the left slot

[woven perch]

hi

[woven perch]

did that no progress

now tying rebooting

[woven perch]

yeahhh

[blissful ridge]

at this point i think its just broken lol, i have no idea past this honestly

[woven perch]

you mentioned etcher though could that possible do anything?

i tried rufus but write protected

or do you have any idea if it would be able to get fixed or is just broken

[blissful ridge]

Yeah

They it if youd like

It's very straight forward

[blissful ridge]

If we cant do in diskpart then its prob broken lol

With the added fact that every app thinks its write protected

Etcher was able to break write protection in my usb probably because etcher made the write protection in the first place

No idea

Give it a try tho