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Old 05-26-2019, 12:04 AM   #125
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Originally Posted by davidfor View Post
As to tools, I don't know what "Etcher" is. If it is an image writer for SD cards, then it should work.
Seems likely that he is referring to balena's Etcher. While it worked when I tested it, the portable version clocked in at over 82,731KB compared to the USB Duplicator Writer at 926KB. I didn't have a corrupt card handy to test it's ability to detect a corrupted card but then I've made a habit of using the SD Card Association format utility before copying an image to a SD card. Since the USB Duplicator Writer will not let me select a hard drive to overwrite, I didn't feel the drive selection in Etcher had any advantages from that point of view. The ability to use the same app across Windows, MacOSX and Linux was appealing.

Etcher for anyone who wants to take a look at it.

And yes, I know worrying about 80MB is a bit anal but then my original hard drive was a massive 10MB. Old habits die hard.
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