thumb drives keep getting corrupted

[Todd Chester]

Hi All,

I use Live USB a lot.  I dd them to my flash drives.
And I use them in customer machines.


Problem;  I only get two to three shots and something
always goes wrong with the stinkers.  I make sure
to fully power off the machines before removing the
flash drives.  I think it may just be the drives
and not the software.

Do you guys have a favorite high reliability flash
drive for use with Live USB?

Anyone else had this happen repeatedly to them?

Many thanks,
-T

[Wayne Twine]

Yes it happens to me all the time

On 28 Jun 2017 06:14, "Todd Chester" <ToddAndMargo(a)zoho.com&gt; wrote:

>  Hi All,
>
>  I use Live USB a lot.  I dd them to my flash drives.
>  And I use them in customer machines.
>
>
>  Problem;  I only get two to three shots and something
>  always goes wrong with the stinkers.  I make sure
>  to fully power off the machines before removing the
>  flash drives.  I think it may just be the drives
>  and not the software.
>
>  Do you guys have a favorite high reliability flash
>  drive for use with Live USB?
>
>  Anyone else had this happen repeatedly to them?
>
>  Many thanks,
>  -T
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[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Todd Chester <ToddAndMargo(a)zoho.com&gt;

| I use Live USB a lot.  I dd them to my flash drives.
| And I use them in customer machines.
| 
| 
| Problem;  I only get two to three shots and something
| always goes wrong with the stinkers.

| Anyone else had this happen repeatedly to them?

Yes.

My superstition is that if I ever let Windows boot while the USB stick
is plugged in, Windows scribbles something on the stick.  I have *not*
tested this hypothesis.

It is easy to accidentally let Windows boot because each machine seems
to have a different keystroke to request booting into the firmware
boot menu.