Files deleted from "boot" and "images" during installation

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trying to use fedora lxqt 40 with a usb stick(image made with rufus, using windows i see the files are perfectly in place) and 1 of these 2 things happens:

  1. computer displays the grub rescue terminal with an error saying the file ‘boot\grub2\i386-pc\normal.mod’ was not found

  2. grub runs normally but when i try to start fedora i get 2 errors saying ‘vmlinuz’ wasnt found and “you need to load the kernel first”

after restarting the computer and using windows i see the folders “boot”(where normal.mod should be) and “images”(where vmlinuz should be) are completely empty. like i said, i checked the usb stick right after making the image and all the files are where they should be. i made sure to safely eject the usb stick before trying fedora but no use.
help?

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Try rewriting it in DD (non-hybrid) mode. Ideally you shouldn’t be able to browse the USB’s contents beyond a FAT EFI partition.

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I’ve always had great success with Ventoy on a USB stick, then dropping the ISO images for multiple distros, including Windows 10 and 11 and a pile of recovery tools into a directory on the stick and booting straight from it.

Live images work, installers work. Less hassle, no dicking about with trying to guess which media writer will work with which specific ISO and so on.

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Multiple UEFI ESP partitions, Linux Distros and bootable ISOs using one USB NVMe SSD