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I have done these exact steps. the hard drive was working as of last week when I did a system checkup through BIOS. also, shouldn't the state of the hard drive not matter if I am just trying to run the environment off the stick? I know it isn't the stick because it boots the now permanent burn...

okay, I know it's been a while, but I have a new USB stick and it has the BIOS update executable on it and I'm still getting the same message when I try to follow the official website's instructions, and when it switches to the DOS screen it is unresponsive to any key press. I've tried different...

I can't burn anything to the drive, as previous attempts have yielded, so no Gparted for me. maybe I could try your second link on the win11 computer because it does boot, but if it is doing the same thing as windows' disk partition manager then it probably won't work.

so the USB stick works to boot Kubuntu on my win11 computer, but not the Dell Inspiron. maybe it is salvageable if I can find why it isn't detecting Kubuntu on the flash drive. any ideas? the BIOS menu is pretty bleak when I glance through it. I've gone through and disabled each option in turn...

you can't reformat a drive in read only mode, which it is stuck in. even going into the disk partition manager it is recognized as read and write but if you try to do anything to it you will get an error message saying it's in read only mode.

huh. when I booted off the stick this time, I noticed something I didn't before, a little error code flashing briefly before opening to a menu that is allowing me to try booting Kubuntu (yes, you read that right, it left the kubuntu burn on there). so basically, that means that the exact problem...

OK, trying something weird. I'll burn an Ubuntu distro to it and run it again on the win11 machine to see if it is doing something different.

interesting. The Cruzer Glide is the one that I have now, which may be close enough to see similar issues, but I just tried booting it to my win11 PC and it worked fine, so it may not be the flash drive.

I tried booting it on the computer I used etcher with and it worked, so it is some incompatibility with the Dell computer. it may be noteworthy that its original software was windows 7, since it was mentioned earlier about quick boot for 8, 10, and 11, and I also looked for legacy boot or secure...

I've tried burning it like that several times with my file and the one you linked, and it is still giving me the same result. even switching it up to Ubuntu just in case both files were somehow getting messed up didn't help. also, how do I format it to ext4 when I can't write to it?

I briefly googled it and tried to use diskpart to change the registry but it was registered as read and write permissions, despite what the error message tells me. it also recommended using the company's software to repair it but their software didn't have any restoring methods, only encryption...

...that is very different from mine. Plugging it into a windows 11 computer to try to read it results in it telling me it needs to be formatted to access it, and if I try to format it, it tells me it is write protected. I got a different error at one point where it told me that it doesn't...

it doesn't matter as I can access the setup menu from within the boot menu, so I can press f12 on boot and still navigate to the same place as if I had pressed f2.

there's definitely something on the USB stick as I have run Balena etcher multiple times on the stick with the same result. I do not have a legacy boot option listed anywhere in the setup options, but the USB stick is the default boot option that I have set through the BIOS. I am not sure...

It's this computer but with no OS, just a blank hard drive inside, and I am trying to boot off the Kubuntu image on the USB stick to install that. so yes, I am trying to install Kubuntu, but it isn't booting off the USB stick to allow me to install it to the hard drive.

trying to load Kubuntu on brand new Sandisk 64 GB external USB stick with burned image from Balena Etcher, picked USB storage device through boot menu, greeted with that message