Etcher: As a weird user, I need to have to pick the drive myself, so that I don't erase a 1.6 TB drive by accident, ever again :)

[alicerocheman]

• Etcher version: 1.4.4
• Operating system and architecture: Windows 7 Pro

Hey,

Thank you for your work, I love Etcher!

I would love to have an option in the settings, to uncheck autoselect for the drive.

Given that it will erase it, I'd like to be sure I pick it myself every time, so I'd rather have the drive unselected by default.

I'd understand if it's too much trouble though!

Thanks for being cool :)

[kriekprinsloo]

Are you sure you don't have unsafe mode on? It the drive an external or
internal one? I think if it's an internal drive it will stop autoselecting
it if you uncheck unsafe mode.

On Sun, Oct 7, 2018 at 4:18 AM Alice [e-mail] wrote:

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• Etcher version: 1.4.4
• Operating system and architecture: Windows 7 Pro

Hey,

Thank you for your work, I love Etcher!

I would love to have an option in the settings, to uncheck autoselect for
the drive.

Given that it will erase it, I'd like to be sure I pick it myself every
time, so I'd rather have the drive unselected by default.

I'd understand if it's too much trouble though!

Thanks for being cool :)

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[alicerocheman]

Hi :)

This happened before I changed any settings. Unsafe mode was never on.

It was an external drive. What happened was that I burned a microSD, but the burn failed. So I burned again. Only the microSD had been auto-ejected, and the 1.6 TB external drive was plugged in, and it was auto-selected. I didn't see that so I went ahead and burned again, thus losing a lot of data.

I have disabled the auto-eject, so this won't happen again hopefully. But auto select seems like a bad idea given that the goal is to erase a drive. The name of the selected drive should at least be highlighted or something, so as to prevent mistakes. I don't know what the best solution is, but i believe it can be improved ;)

[kriekprinsloo]

Yes, sorry for my late reply. The external hard drive is just as valid for writing as a thumb drive or SD card. These things do happen sometimes. One way to help you to better determine which drive is the correct one would be to use command line tools to scope out which device is the correct one.

You want to open command prompt and use:
diskpart

After this you will enter the diskpart software. Here you should use the command
list disk

It should help you determine the right disks in the future

[louy2]

What I'd like to suggest is that the burning process is a destructive process after all, so confirmation popups may be helpful in making sure the users don't lose data over a simple mishap. Adopting the heuristic that any disk over 1TB is probably an error, another confirmation popup may help reduce error even further.

I'd gladly submit a PR if someone may guide me to where key related components are located.

[lurch]

@alicerocheman I think what you're asking for is a duplicate of #2379 ?

@louy2 See the screenshots in #2045 - is this functionality no longer working?

[thundron]

This should be fixed in latest versions (I couldn't reproduce anymore). Closing