So annoying, if the USB is correctly detected by the OS and you can see it in explorer and format it I would say the drive seems to be okay As a simple test try to create a file in the USB and ensure it works okay (probably already tested it but yk), may be something with balena etcher, for me Rufus is the goat I let u a link to their webpage here (I like the portable one) https://rufus.ie/