I’m trying to boot from my flash drive and I keep getting an “invalid parton table” error
@vasileios might be able to help. I do not know much about this kind of stuff.
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Hey @Leanne and thank you @Tacodogg for tagging me!
I believe you mean “invalid partition table error”. This sounds like there was an error during the flashing of your USB thumb drive. Before we look at it as a possible hardware issue (they do happen and some systems boot from a USB, while another system outright refuses), which app did you use to flash it?
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Etcher…it booted before so idk what happened 
it may have been corrupted during a premature extraction. Have you tried to reflash the drive?
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It would appear that something happened on the filesystem, as @MrDeplorableUSA said.
I would recommend a re-flashing as well. If that doesn’t work, then perhaps you will need a different USB thumb drive.
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Ok ty! Newbie question…does reflashing the drive just mean going through the steps of putting Linux on it with the image through etcher again?
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that’s exactly correct.
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Perhaps try flashing with rufus
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