Image file cannot be located on the target device.

[Mike]

Write Linux Mint Image to the USB Drive
After the USB drive has been formatted, transfer the ISO file to it.

Start Win32 Disk Imager.
Set the drive letter to the USB drive you prepared.
Click the folder icon and locate the Linux Mint ISO file you've already downloaded. You will need to change the file type to show all the files. Click the ISO so that the path appears in the box on the main screen.
Click Write.

The ISO file is found on the USB Drive and is shown in the Image File box but click Write and "Image file cannot be located on the target device.".

Very annoying.

[Tobin Davis (gruemaster)]

How is this a bug? The program reads the image and writes to the device in raw format. How is it expected to read the file on the device it is overwriting? It can't read the image file entirely into memory.

This is not a bug.

[Mike (skyrack)]

Agreed - no bug. The instructions I was following was misleading about
'transferring the file'.

On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 at 14:30, Tobin Davis <email address hidden> wrote:

> How is this a bug? The program reads the image and writes to the device
> in raw format. How is it expected to read the file on the device it is
> overwriting? It can't read the image file entirely into memory.
>
> This is not a bug.
>
> ** Changed in: win32-image-writer
> Status: New => Won't Fix
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1842381
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> Title:
> Image file cannot be located on the target device.
>
> Status in Image Writer:
> Won't Fix
>
> Bug description:
> Write Linux Mint Image to the USB Drive
> After the USB drive has been formatted, transfer the ISO file to it.
>
> Start Win32 Disk Imager.
> Set the drive letter to the USB drive you prepared.
> Click the folder icon and locate the Linux Mint ISO file you've already
> downloaded. You will need to change the file type to show all the files.
> Click the ISO so that the path appears in the box on the main screen.
> Click Write.
>
> The ISO file is found on the USB Drive and is shown in the Image File
> box but click Write and "Image file cannot be located on the target
> device.".
>
> Very annoying.
>
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