It's possible there is a hardware / firmware issue causing the problem. Try re-creating the DIA drive on another system. When you email the heldpdesk team (US_OSImaging[NAME].com) please include the log files from the system it originally failed on. c:\windows\panther\dtri\logs Thank you, Tyler
Just bricked 2x of my thumb drives trying to created a bootable Dell IA thumb drive.  First one wiped my primary thumb drive for imaging, aka, it was working properly and now cannot read or format the drive.  It won't even list the size when I attempt to format.  Repeated this with a test 16GB thumb drive. These drives are not free and this is starting to be a more time consuming task than it was before... what's the issue with this tool?  Any alternatives that work to push a .WIM that will not brick my thumb drives?  
USB creation tool 6.8.0.1 just bricked 2x thumb drives