Etcher claims the freshly formatted target drive is the source drive and wont let me select it

alinanorakari commented 1 year ago

Etcher version: 1.18.4
Operating system and architecture: macOS Ventura 13.3.1 on Intel iMac Pro
Image flashed: self-built installation ISO for NixOS
What do you think should have happened: I should have been able to select the thumb drive as my target drive to flash the ISO
What happened: Etcher shows a blue "Source drive" label next to the thumb drive and disabled the check box to select it as the target
Do you see any meaningful error information in the DevTools? no

The target selection dialog:

The location of the image:

Unusual things about the system:

The boot drive is not the internal drive but an SSD connected via USB because the internal drive is flaky. The boot drive is disk6 according to Disk Utility
- disk7 is the APFS container
- disk7s1s1 is the macOS volume
  - This is where the ISO resides that I want to flash
The internal drive that is not used for booting is disk0 ⚠️ Etcher misidentified this drive as the System drive
The thumb drive got assigned disk2
- There are no files on the thumb drive, it has just been formated and is empty

lurch commented 1 year ago

Related to #3591 & #3734 ?

aethernet commented 1 year ago

Looks like the same bug indeed.

that-ben commented 6 months ago

A year later, this still happens on the most stable build. Any progress on this?

aethernet commented 5 months ago

Haven't been able to repro yet, so no progress

sarfatis commented 5 months ago

Situation: Etcher 1.18.4 with debian12 on external USB APFS targeting reformatted USB shown uncheckable as source. Interpretation: There seems to be a confusion between source-usb and target-usb in Etcher preventing flashing. Workaround : Copy source original-file from external source drive to internal system drive copy-file. Usage: Quit and relaunch Etcher using copy-file from system drive as source : No more uncheckable confusion.

that-ben commented 5 months ago

Honestly, this is quite a pain to do that every time, especially when your system volume is small. I feel like Balena Etcher doesn't care about its macOS user base, which is quite sad. Anyway, I just took a habit of launching Terminal and executing this and it works for me: sudo dd if=/dev/souce of=/dev/target

Good luck everyone.

aethernet commented 3 months ago

Honestly, this is quite a pain to do that every time, especially when your system volume is small. I feel like Balena Etcher doesn't care about its macOS user base, which is quite sad. Anyway, I just took a habit of launching Terminal and executing this and it works for me: sudo dd if=/dev/souce of=/dev/target

Good luck everyone.

All the current maintainers are mac users :) So trust me when I say we do care about mac ...

The problem here is that we have no repro...

6R1MR34P3R commented 2 months ago

Happening the same on last update MacOS 15 Sequoia

aravikusu commented 1 month ago

Was encountering this issue as well. I'm unsure if this will help any, but I was plugging my USB into a hub. When I tried plugging it into the machine directly it no longer incorrectly said that my USB was my "source drive", and let me select it.

oivinde commented 3 weeks ago

Was encountering this issue as well. I'm unsure if this will help any, but I was plugging my USB into a hub. When I tried plugging it into the machine directly it no longer incorrectly said that my USB was my "source drive", and let me select it.

I have a Mac Mini M2 with a docking base. Experience the same issue and solution. Plugged into dock, USB identifies as source, directly in Mac Mini, no problem. Drive is 64GB USB 3 SanDisk.

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Etcher claims the freshly formatted target drive is the source drive and wont let me select it #4051