Guess who is back from exams, and didn’t use vacation mode. Starting to plough through these hundreds of reviews. 
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Good luck with your first burns!
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I’m sure you’ll be able to get through those reviews, good luck! (Consider using vacation mode next time, though 
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Thank you! Here is my very first one 
FINALLY, I got my first burns 
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Btw could someone please tell me how to use Ventoy on Windows, whenever I try to exectute Ventoy2Disk.exe, it keeps yelling at me that I’m in the wrong directory, but I have no idea what the correct directory is, and I didn’t find anything really helpful in the internet as well
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What are you trying to do? If you’re trying to make a bootable USB, I’d recommend balenaEtcher, which is really straightforward to use.
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Congratulations 
! I failed my first burn I think, I got tripped up by font; I was used to radical slide looking like ノ on Mac, and was reviewing from school on a windows laptop 
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I did once use it, but after flashing my USB stick three or four times, it was unusable
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It broke? I think that’d be more of a hardware issue and less of a software issue.
You have to reformat a drive that’s been used as a boot device if you want to store files on it again.
Edit: Or the boot device was unusable?
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I know, but the problem was that my laptop told me that the stick was corrupted, and nothing I did helped 
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I am still not quite sure exactly what happened here. I ask because I’ve used balenaEtcher a lot in the past, and the same USB I have used as a boot device currently has files on it, so something either went catastrophically wrong in your case or it’s still possible to use the USB.
Did you get the message about corruption as soon as you plugged in the device, or were you able to format the drive first? I always reformat on Linux with GNOME Disks, so I’m not sure exactly what this process would look like on Windows.
If you did format the drive, are you sure you used a filesystem that is compatible with Windows (NTFS or FAT)?
Sorry for having a deluge of questions instead of just answering your own.
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I was still on Linux when this happened, and I just noticed that it wasn’t working because it wasn’t mounting properly, and I tried to reformat it, but it took ages and didn’t really work. I just inserted it into a Windows laptop because of the corruption message that it displays.
Even if it still worked, I doubt I could use it because I already threw it away I now have two sticks, a 16 GB one and a 32 GB. I flashed the 16 GB one, but only once, and I did the exact same as with my old one, but everything worked without any problems with the new one.
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I see! Well, it may have been a hardware issue, then. Formatting the drive should not take very long unless you select some of the “secure erase” options.
Do you still think you’ll try Ventoy, then?
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If I figure out how to use it, yes, because it’s supposed to be great for multibooting a USB!
If I don’t figure it out, I’ll give Etcher another chance
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I found out what I did wrong
I installed the wrong zip folder
I’m such a stupid idiot 
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isn’t this how learning programming works? lmao anyway that was my experience.
secret life advice
start a good habit now to never call yourself stupid, even in jest 
you’re a smart cookie and it’s more important than you think to firmly believe that in every cell. Right now you take it for granted, but it comes in handy later, promise
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Throwback to when I was reinstalling on a laptop which was previously unencrypted so I used the shred util where it spent some hours manually reassigning every bit on the SSD at random.
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Exams are over! 3 As, 1 B, that B being in History because I knew almost no names I’m pretty happy, though!
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Congratulations!
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True, you just have to try and find out what you did wrong… though it wasn’t specifically programming related in this case
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