Etcher: No removable drive detected

[crystaldavidson]

• Etcher version: 1.4.4
• Operating system and architecture: mac os x yosemite (10.10.5) and macbook air (early 2015)
• Image flashed: motioneyeos-raspberrypi3-20170212.img
• Do you see any meaningful error information in the DevTools? unknown

Hello - I am trying to build a security camera with my raspberry pi 3. I just need to get the motion eye os onto my pi but etcher unfortunately won't detect my removable drive (microSD). I found an older post that mentioned their sd card not registering and they believed their macbook was too old to be compatible with etcher 1.4.4.

Please help as I am near the end of the completion of my security camera project and am very excited to catch neighborhood rascals.

[kriekprinsloo]

My MacBook Pro is late 2012, and has no problem with writing cards, so it
probably not that. Try opening the terminal and finding all the volumes on
your computer:

The command is diskutil list

Upon entering the command, you should find a list similar to mine:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE
IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD 250.4 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
4: Apple_HFS Linux 200.0 GB disk0s4
5: Apple_HFS Untitled 48.6 GB disk0s5

/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE
IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD +250.0 GB disk1
Logical Volume on disk0s2
29F46527-89DE-41C9-AD23-12EC1307C044
Unencrypted

Try this command and see if you can find your SD card, then get back to me
with the results.

On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 2:45 PM crystaldavidson [e-mail]
wrote:

>

• Etcher version: 1.4.4
• Operating system and architecture: mac os x yosemite (10.10.5) and
  macbook air (early 2015)
• Image flashed: motioneyeos-raspberrypi3-20170212.img
• Do you see any meaningful error information in the DevTools?
  unknown

Hello - I am trying to build a security camera with my raspberry pi 3. I
just need to get the motion eye os onto my pi but etcher unfortunately
won't detect my removable drive (microSD). I found an older post that
mentioned their sd card not registering and they believed their macbook was
too old to be compatible with etcher 1.4.4.

Please help as I am near the end of the completion of my security camera
project and am very excited to catch neighborhood rascals.

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[crystaldavidson]

thank you so much!

my SD card came up "CRYSTALCAN"

Result of command is diskutil list:

/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *251.0 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage 250.1 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD *249.8 GB disk1
Logical Volume on disk0s2
45A7CCB9-8249-4762-BBD1-AC5F4A56EA09
Unlocked Encrypted
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *15.9 GB disk2
1: Windows_FAT_32 CRYSTALCAN 15.9 GB disk2s1
Crystals-MacBook-Air:~ RadicalSpirit$

[kriekprinsloo]

Ok, this is great information. We can now isolate that the problem is most
probably Etcher's fault, as your computer sees the drive. The next step I
can recommend is to try and replicate the error, and see if the DevTools
gives you any error messages to work with.

To open the DevTools you need to hit Command+Alt+i, and it should pop right
open. See if then the console spits out an error message, and we'll work
from there.
Thanks!

On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 4:18 PM crystaldavidson [e-mail]
wrote:

thank you so much!

my SD card came up "CRYSTALCAN"

Result of command is diskutil list:

/dev/disk0

: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *251.0 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage 250.1 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1

: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD *249.8 GB disk1
Logical Volume on disk0s2
45A7CCB9-8249-4762-BBD1-AC5F4A56EA09
Unlocked Encrypted
/dev/disk2

: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: FDisk_partition_scheme *15.9 GB disk2
1: Windows_FAT_32 CRYSTALCAN 15.9 GB disk2s1
Crystals-MacBook-Air:~ RadicalSpirit$

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[crystaldavidson]

Not sure if this is an error message or not.

Copy and pasted the console text below:

etcher:sdk:scanner scanner:init +0ms Scanneradapters: Map(2)domain: nullisScanning: trueonDevices: function ()onError: function ()options: Object_events: EventHandlers_eventsCount: 2_maxListeners: undefined__proto__: EventEmitter
gui.js:105081 etcher:sdk:scanner subscribe +5ms BlockDeviceAdapterdevices: Array(0)domain: nullid: "blockdevice"_events: EventHandlers_eventsCount: 2_maxListeners: undefined__proto__: EventEmitter
gui.js:105081 etcher:sdk:scanner subscribe +2ms USBBootAdapterblobCache: Objectdevices: Array(0)domain: nullid: "usbboot"progress: Object_events: EventHandlers_eventsCount: 2_maxListeners: undefined__proto__: EventEmitter
gui.js:105081 _____ _ _
| ___| | | |
| |__ | |_ ___| |__ ___ _ __
| __|| __/ __| '_ \ / _ \ '__|
| |___| || (__| | | | __/ |
____/ _____|_| |_|___|_|

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Version = 1.4.4, Type = dmg
gui.js:105081 Sun Sep 30 2018 18:32:12 GMT-0700 (PDT) Application start ({"packageType":"dmg","version":"1.4.4"})
gui.js:105081 Sun Sep 30 2018 18:32:12 GMT-0700 (PDT) Checking for updates ({"currentVersion":"1.4.4","stable":true,"updateSemverRange":"<2.0.0","includeUnstableChannel":false})
gui.js:105081 etcher:sdk:scanner start +154ms true
gui.js:105081 Sun Sep 30 2018 18:32:13 GMT-0700 (PDT) [object Event]
gui.js:105081 Sun Sep 30 2018 18:32:15 GMT-0700 (PDT) Update notification skipped ({"reason":"Latest version"})
gui.js:105081 Sun Sep 30 2018 18:37:37 GMT-0700 (PDT) Open image selector
gui.js:105081 Sun Sep 30 2018 18:40:21 GMT-0700 (PDT) Select image ({"path":"/Users/RadicalSpirit/Downloads/motioneyeos-raspberrypi3-20180224 (1).img","extension":"img","size":{"original":230686720,"final":{"estimation":false,"value":230686720}},"hasMBR":true,"hasGPT":false,"partitions":[{"type":14,"id":null,"name":null,"firstLBA":2048,"lastLBA":43008,"extended":false},{"type":131,"id":null,"name":null,"firstLBA":43008,"lastLBA":411648,"extended":false},{"type":0,"id":null,"name":null,"firstLBA":0,"lastLBA":0,"extended":false},{"type":0,"id":null,"name":null,"firstLBA":0,"lastLBA":0,"extended":false}],"logo":false,"bmap":false})
gui.js:105081 Sun Sep 30 2018 18:40:23 GMT-0700 (PDT) Open modal ({"name":"drive-selector"})
gui.js:105081 Sun Sep 30 2018 18:41:14 GMT-0700 (PDT) Modal accepted ({"name":"drive-selector"})
gui.js:105081 Sun Sep 30 2018 18:41:23 GMT-0700 (PDT) Open modal ({"name":"drive-selector"})
gui.js:105081 Sun Sep 30 2018 18:41:26 GMT-0700 (PDT) Modal rejected ({"name":"drive-selector","method":"backdrop click"})
gui.js:105081 Sun Sep 30 2018 18:42:10 GMT-0700 (PDT) Open modal ({"name":"drive-selector"})

[forsakensingularity]

I used Etcher yesterday and it worked fine BUT today it does not see my DVD drive; other apps see the drive fine but Etcher cannot; so I downloaded the CLI and ran --

sudo /opt/etcher-cli/etcher -d /dev/sr0 -y -c -u haiku-r1beta1-x86_64-anyboot.zip

And it came back after several seconds and said --

The selected drive "/dev/sr0" was not found

We can't find "/dev/sr0" in your system. Did you unplug the drive?

Also, Command-Alt-i does not work on my Linux Mint 19 system. I have an AMD Athlon processor with 4GB RAM ... like I said, it was just working but has stopped -- weird...

[kriekprinsloo]

@crystaldavidson I see...

The DevTools didn't show any error I could spot. Does Etcher see your other drives like your laptop's hard drive? I would also try to test a different SD card. If these suggestions do not work to your liking there's one other idea I had.

@forsakensingularity The DevTools are accessible by the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+I, though if you are using the CLI I think that that is the error message. You said that you were trying to write a DVD, what kind is it? The main types are DVD-RW and DVD-R. DVD-RW (read-write) are like SD cards and flash drives. You can write them over and over again, while DVD-R (read) are only able to be written once.
Also, are you using an external CD/DVD drive or a built-in one?

Thanks!

[crystaldavidson]

Etcher saw my laptop's hard drive previously, but this week completely stopped showing my hard drive and simply states no removable drive detected. I will delete and reinstall etcher, and try a new SD card asap!

[forsakensingularity]

DVD-RW... target does not matter as it does not see the internal drive.

I'll play with bios settings...

On Mon, Oct 1, 2018, 6:33 PM Kriek Prinsloo [e-mail]
wrote:

@crystaldavidson https://github.com/crystaldavidson I see...

The DevTools didn't show any error I could spot. Does Etcher see your
other drives like your laptop's hard drive? I would also try to test a
different SD card. If these suggestions do not work to your liking there's
one other idea I had.

@forsakensingularity https://github.com/forsakensingularity The
DevTools are accessible by the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+I, though if you are
using the CLI I think that that is the error message. You said that you
were trying to write a DVD, what kind is it? The main types are DVD-RW and
DVD-R. DVD-RW (read-write) are like SD cards and flash drives. You can
write them over and over again, while DVD-R (read) are only able to be
written once.
Also, are you using an external CD/DVD drive or a built-in one?

Thanks!

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[crystaldavidson]

Reinstalled Etcher and laptop hard drive now showing up so that's great! Tried a different SD card but nothing shows up still.

[stuzog]

I'm having the same problem, trying to burn a linuxmint-19-cinnamon-64bit-v2-1.iso in El Capitan 10.11.6 on an iMac 7,1 6GB RAM. Etcher 1.4.5 won't recognise a formatted 32GB SanDisk Cruzer USB stick, even though it appears on the desktop. "No removable drive detected." Etcher used to work -- what has changed?

[forsakensingularity]

I personally have no idea. It will burn to a SanDisk drive; I even got it
to write to 5 at once but it no longer sees DVDs - so I have stopped using
Etcher.

Writing to USBs are fine but for my purposes I need an expandable medium so
writing a DVD and installing is a longer process but it works. usb drives
are not great if you write the OS but you can't expand it to the whole disk

• like is possible with OpenSuSE ... live and learn.

On Mon, Oct 15, 2018, 10:06 PM Stuart Hertzog [e-mail]
wrote:

I'm having the same problem on Trying to burn
linuxmint-19-cinnamon-64bit-v2-1.iso in El Capitan 10.11.6 on an iMac 7,1
6GB RAM. Etcher 1.4.5 won't recognise a formatted 32GB SanDisk Cruzer USB
stick, even though it appears on the desktop. "No removable drive
detected." Etcher used to work -- what has changed?

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[crystaldavidson]

hopefully we can fix this bug.

i have been trying my best to work in terminal so I can skip the entire etcher process, which is a shame because etcher has a beautiful user interface and is highly recommended for raspberry pi projects.

[stuzog]

I suspect that the problem may be the way in which Apple's Disk Utility formats the USB stick, which I had been using to set up the USB drive. I read online somewhere that only the the Linux GParted program does this properly for Linux, so I reformatted the drive with that and burned the .iso image with the Linux Image Writer program. Everything went according to plan after that. The installation USB worked on both OS X and Windows machines. Another Apple "improvement" for Disk Utility?

[fjblau]

Etcher no longer recognizes an SD card as a removable drive. Kind of renders the program useless. YOU HAD ONE JOB, as the kids say.

[thundron]

@fjblau @crystaldavidson Did you try @stuzog 's steps by chance?
Also, if you want to flash system drives (which is highly suggested not to do so), you can enable unsafe mode in Etcher settings

[lurch]

@forsakensingularity Etcher doesn't support burning DVDs, see #2432

[RobinBrackez]

I had the same problem on Linux Mint. My micro sd card couldn't be found by Etcher, but was visible in the file manager. I enabled the "unsafe mode" in the settings of Etcher and then the sd card showed up. The sd card is 64GB which is "unusually large" for an sd card according to Etcher (got a warning about it), so it probably thought the drive wasn't suitable to flash.

[sartor]

I have same problem with 1.4.x version on LinuxMint But version 1.3.1 work perfect!

[thundron]

@sartor Did you try enabling unsafe mode in the settings?

[sartor]

Yes. No changes

[jasalazar]

I have the same issue. I enabled the unsafe mode and it detected the micro sd, but etcher won't start the process after clicking "Flash!"

[anthonym01]

Enable unsafe mode, and make sure your os is detecting the drive

On Mon, 15 Jun 2020, 9:06 PM Jose Salazar, [e-mail] wrote:

I have the same issue. I enabled the unsafe mode and it detected the
micro sd, but etcher won't start the process after clicking "Flash!"

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