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error 8

Asked by Charlie

"Error occurred when getting a handle. Usually means that something else is using the device"

There are no other programs running. Disk Imager is started from shortcut with nothing else open.
It is a brand new 8GB USB stick. Tried it unformatted and formatted. Neither works. It shows as drive E: in Windows and E: is available in the combo.

If I ignore error and click write it appears to write but the stick will not act as a boot disk.
Terry

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ScottyVW (scott-vanwinkle) said : 		#1

I have the same problem and have yet to find a solution.

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nazar (rafalnazarewicz) said : 		#2

I had the same. error 8 was popping when my .img was located on hard drive. I solved the problem by coping .img file to another flash drive. Good luck. Rafal

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Ciliva Kisrou (vaslab78) said : 		#3

i did what nazar said - i had 2 usb flash drives - copy paste whole img to E: then run the normal procedure and writed the img to F: (both flash drive letters). worked for me.

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Michael Sallmen (michael-sallmen) said : 		#4

I had this problem under Windows Vista, but not with Windows XP.

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Allen (allenfok94) said : 		#5

That's workable！

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Allen (allenfok94) said : 		#6

That's workable！

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zhifeng hu (zhifeng) said : 		#7

if you are not english system. please move your .img file to location under the same directory with Win32 Disk Imager.
so it would working .

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