i was trying to revive a really bad laptop, celeron bad to be specific, and i tried to put linux on it
with my smart windows user brain the first tool i found was…etcher
from the looks of what happened, i managed to fail the installation and when i try to format it, in any way, ive tried: rufus, ventoy, windows formatting, whatever i could find.
everything says its failed and windows im assuming just ejects my drive
from partition manager i can see a “4 mb healthy fat partition” and 2 unallocated partitions, a 3.87 gb one and a 53.75 gb one, separated by the only existing partition
i cannot allocate this space since that also ejects it
best i can really provide is a ventoy log
ive seen some other posts about simular behaviours of etcher and i wish i saw this sooner
other people’s solution was mostly ventoy or just formatting it with cmd but i havent found a post where it was getting disconnected/ejected and didnt reappear until disconnected and reconnected manually
to add its 1 am so i will go sleep and try any suggestions tomorrow
Hello and welcome to the Manjaro Community! 
It’s possible the stick itself has become faulty; these things are capable of only so many write cycles. Hopefully you have (or can get) another to try, with e.g. Ventoy?
Or, if you have access to optical drives and media e.g. a portable USB drive, that’s another option to get into a Live session and maybe check the USB stick from there.
N.B.: Even an old spare SATA HDD with a SATA to USB cable will do the job.
You say that you have tried Rufus, Ventoy, and other methods…
Just to be clear, you have booted these USBs, right?; You haven’t simply tried to launch them from inside another OS?
Forgive me, if this question seems to insult your intelligence, but there are many kinds of Users at different stages of learning; we don’t (yet) know which category you might fall under. 
If you can at least boot the Manjaro Installer to the Live environment, some system information might help as a start;
inxi --admin --verbosity=8 --filter --no-host --width
If I am understanding your description well enough, you have Windows installed on the laptop and it’s booting as expected.
Is this laptop capable of UEFI mode booting? If Windows is installed in UEFI mode (with an ESP partition) we can probably assume it is capable.
As mentioned, the USB might simply be dead;
but in case it’s not:
The Ventoy USB must be created in UEFI mode so that any ISO selected from the Ventoy menu will also boot in UEFI mode.
I will focus on Ventoy as I consider this the better option; any possible damage as a result of re-writing the content of an ISO to USB is taken out of the equation completely.
From the information provided, your USB seems to be a 64 GB capacity, which is sufficient to hold several ISOs on a Ventoy USB.
The USB should ideally be empty (read: unused) when creating a Ventoy USB. Could you outline exactly how you created your Ventoy USB; what settings did you use?
well i have tried rufus and ventoy, but the problem is that the first thing i tried was etcher, which is apparently not very great i found out
i could boot into the Live environment, but the installer refused to work
i have windows both on my laptop and pc, as the installer failed to wipe my laptop’s drive somehow, but on the laptop i wouldnt say its running… its more like…walking?
in fact it is booting uefi and i have checked that even tho i was quite sure
well at this point it might be, the 3 partitions im seeing kinda just have the allocated storage partition in the middle, and literally every option is grayed out, the rest i can only do “new simple volume” but that throws me back to the error below
if i try to do anything i get the error of “A device which does not exist was specified”
after that it just disconnects and isnt seen as existing at all by windows
the boot drive was created with etcher, but i tried to format it with ventoy
ventoy fails at 14% consistantly while formatting it (im guessing thats when it hits the existing partition and doesnt know what to do?)
i get the error “An error occured during the installation. You can reinsert the USB device and try again.” etc
it is in fact 64 gbs
yet again it was made with etcher (sadly) and i cannot create it with ventoy as it fails at the same 14% every time
Hello!
i dont have acces to many other storage forms other than this single usb drive, every other usb drive i have is either a 4gb one filled with photos or 512 mb ones
You may try more forceful methods such as diskpart, shown here;
Or various other methods, such as those shown here;
https://www.howtogeek.com/904285/fix-windows-was-unable-to-complete-the-format/
But ultimately it sounds like your issues may be with hardware, etcher, or windoze.
None of which are supported here.
at step 5 i got the error “DiskPart has encountered an error: A device which does not exist was specified.
See the System Event Log for more information.”
i do not know where to find the logs
Sorry, if you are having trouble with your hardware or windoze … you will have to ask about those things in their respective support channels.
At this point, it might be best to buy a new USB drive.
I’d suggest a SanDisk 32GB – nothing fancy, but generally reliable – in fact, I’d even suggest USB2.0/3.0 rather than USB3.1/3.2 to maintain compatibility with older computers.
Once you have that, the idea is to create a Ventoy USB using the new USB drive.
Download the latest full Manjaro Installer ISO (important: verify the hash), then drag the ISO to the Ventoy USB.
Boot the Manjaro ISO via the new Ventoy USB.
Once in the Live environment, you can insert your 64GB USB in another port and try to rejuvenate it using Linux tools – or, leave it for now, and continue installing Manjaro.
I suggest using the erase disk partitioning method, which will completely remove the Windows installation from the laptop; this is what you tried to do before.
Please also set the swap options when you choose the erase disk method – you still haven’t posted any system information, so I can only guess that Swap With Hibernation might be the best swap option from the dropdown.
All being well, your installation will continue successfully. If it still doesn’t, then I’m afraid it’s difficult to help further.
Good luck.
Before you throw your usb-stick to the trash, you may try to remove any partitions using windows’ (min. W7) dskmgmt.msc running as administrator - right click on each partition, remove, right-click on free space, create new partition, format as ntfs, right-click, assign an available drive letter.
The cmd (powershell) first diskpart command after list/select disk should be ‘clean’, then ‘convert mbr’, if dskmgmt refused to touch non-wnds partitions.
Then you may wish to check the stick itself using e.g. H2testw for the assigned drive letter https://www.heise.de/download/product/h2testw-50539 - it is based on f3, but that is a Linux tool (with some gui wrappers available).
If your usb stick still appears intact, for (re-)writing an image you should give it considerably mor time than you’d expect (H2testw / f3write would give an optimistic writing data rate, as they write straight forward). Consider, say 5MB/s (regardless of what was printed on the package) and give any image-writer enough time to complete writing the installation media image.
If the Manjaro installer runs into trouble with your old notebook, you may first try to select boot with non-free drivers, and if nothing helps, try other main distributions - hw support may differ between them. To begin with - debian, gentoo, ubuntu, mint - and you may search distrowatch.com for a distro that fits your intention, although not by hardware model. Or just do a general search for Linux and your notebook’s label and model?