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Correction #13651

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Writing an Installation Image to Flash Media doc

Added by Georgiy Tyutyunnik about 3 years ago. Updated about 3 years ago.

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On several occasions in Windows 10 and 11 the Balena Etcher would fail to flash firmware to USB or the resulting flash would not boot.
I worked around this by advising to start Etcher via "Run as Administrator".
I think it's worth suggesting by default in our doc in "Start Etcher" bullet point in Using Etcher part.

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Updated by Jim Pingle about 3 years ago

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This is already noted on the document you linked.

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Etcher requires elevated privileges to write USB drives. In the majority of cases, Etcher will trigger an operating system prompt for additional privileges as needed. If it does not, re-run Etcher as an administrator explicitly.

It would be confusing to mention it earlier because for the majority of users it is unnecessary. They should only have to do that if it fails to prompt them.

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