The USB Creator is terrible, no matter what I do (in order to replace my old flash drives)

I keep getting the below message.  I wish there was a better way!

Any suggestions? My walls are getting dented from banging my head on them lol..

I'm using memorex USB 2.0 16gb drives in windows 11 still no luck..

 

 

Edited March 26, 20251 yr by Walter S

You can use the manual mode:

 

https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/getting-started/manual-install-method/

Failure of the Unraid USB Creator on Windows (as well as failures of balena etcher, win32diskimager, etc - sometimes even Rufus, though somehow Rufus often works when others won't) is almost always due to an anti-ransomeware setting. Check if your AV solution has a white list for apps and add your usb creator, and/or whatever other USB creation/Iso writing tools you'd like to use that keep failing to said white-list. If there is no white-list, temporarily dissable anti-ransomeware protection. I bet you'll find that does the trick. 

 

Please note: these anti-ransomeware features will usually cause "manual mode" installs to fail when attmepting to run the MakeBootable.BAT, which will fail with an MBR access denied error of some sort.

Edited April 2, 20251 yr by Jawzxx
Adding info about manual mode failing too

Thanks Jawzxx I thought I turned all that AV stuff off. I’ll check further.