Createinstallmedia failes to copy to USB drive

Trying to make USB drive bootable.
Createinstallmedia gives an error that it failed to copy.
Tried two pen drives and same error.
Mavericks is in application folder.
I even tried to copy to different location and tried to make install able from there.
Console logs shows i/o error not sure if it's read error or write error.
One of the pen drive is new so I don't suspect bad drive.
Disk utility shoes no error for MacBook hard drive.
What could be wrong to make USB drive bootable?

Are the USB drives plugged in directly to the Mac? No USB hubs in between?
~Lyssa

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