So i installed TAILS to a USB device using this tutorial (https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/installation/manual/windows/index.en.html (which was also in the deepdotweb tutorial))
And everything set up fine, however when I try to create a persistence volume it says "Device /dev/sdb was not created using Tails Installer."
I don't have any other USBs to use to create a volume, before anyone asks.
I don't understand why this is happening though, normal method of installation is:
tails iso on DVD
boot up TAILS
clone TAILS to USB
then set up persistence volume
But the way I did it it should have just let me go straight to booting from USB then to setting up persistence. Why did the official tails website tell me to do this if it just breaks one of the most important parts?
Also other people have been having the same issue, except it's not always "/dev/sdb". I looked at that file and it's 0kb as well.
Your USB must be created with TAILS Installer. The TAILS Installer is only found when running TAILS OS.
The USB stick you have created was not created with TAILS Installer. Instead, you used a program called PenDriveLinux. These are two very different things.
If you only have 1 USB stick, you must create and boot a TAILS DVD, then use TAILS Installer to rewrite the USB drive you have.