Flash Drive being corrupted while flashing the Fedora ISO file

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While trying to flash the thumb drive with the Fedora Workstation 41 ISO by downloading the ISO file and trying to flash from the balenaEtcher as well as from the Fedora Media Writer, the thumb drive gets corrupted and the Windows File Manager prompts to Format the disk and while trying to format the disk it says it is Write protected and am not able to do anything with the drive unless cleaned using the cmd diskpart.

I have Windows 11 in my laptop. And am trying to dual boot the device with Windows 11 and Fedora and am getting the error trying to make the thumb drive bootable.

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Have you tried using the flash drive (to boot) after writing it with Media Writer? Windows may report a problem when there is none (because the format is not that of a “data stick” so to say).

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I tried booting from the drive despite the error and it worked fine. Thank you for the support.

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