Unable to boot to the latest installation media - squashfs

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Hello!
Long term EOS user, i needed to repartition (my root partition kept filling up) and decided to just re-install since i have a lot of clutter anyway. I got the latest ISO, verified it with sha15 (returned OK), and used the SUSE Studio Imagewriter to replace my older EOS USB stick with the new ISO. Booted into it, and i was met with some issues regarding being (i didnt take a photo sadly) what i recall was it was unable to build the dynamic cache and had squashfs Input/Output errors about being unable to read (might of been write though). I tried again, this time to a slightly different stage/screen but with a similar error. Typically it hung forever on a bootup screen with terminal output only.

I wondered if it was the image writer so i used popsicle and this puts me onto basically the same error: Now it loads up, shows some errors and then leaves me on a permanantly black screen. Canlt use some hotkeys + f4 and i get find a terminal (log in as root) and it shows this:

SQUASHFS error: xz decompression failed, data probably corrupt
SQUASHFS error: Failed to read block 0x48b83: -5
SQUASHFS error: Unable to read fragment block entry (48b8138a)
SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 48b8138a, size 45ef0
pldof: error while loading libraries /usr/lib/libproc2.so.0: cannot read file data: Input/Output error

Whats my problem/solution? USB? Iso? Elsewhere?

Thanks in advance

PS: going on holiday for 2 weeks from tomorrow so if you respond and i dont, iā€™m not being rude, i just wont be at home to be able to comment.

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Have you tried using a different USB?

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not yet, will do so now

EDIT:

SUSE Image Writer stopped at 49% saying there was a read/write error. I noticed i couldnt write to my hard disk the other day, maybe its linked? Might try to write it from another boot

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Turned out my USB ports had issues, plugged it in the back to write and read from and iirc it worked.

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