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    Official SD card not good ?

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      Pandasan
      last edited by Pandasan

      Hello,
      I bought a set and got an official Raspberry SD card (16Go) I tried every way I could find in the forum, but all got same result:

      Error resizing existing FAT partition
      Fatal; Bad FAT: interminated chain for \SYSTEME~1. You should run dosfsck or scandisk

      Raspian is working, and install retropie from rasbian give me a message like I cannot do it because of version.

      I used win32disk manager, Partition wizard, SD formatter... Every way gave me the same result.
      I am using windows 10.

      Is there a trick to make it work ?

      Thanks a lot

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        mitu Global Moderator @Pandasan
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        @pandasan If your intention is to only run RetroPie, then get the image for your system from the download page. Unpack the file with 7-zip then write the .img file with Win32DiskImager directly on the card, as indicated in https://retropie.org.uk/docs/First-Installation/.

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          Pandasan @mitu
          last edited by Pandasan

          @mitu That is what I did obviously in the first place, which gave me the same error.
          img file could be wrong ? I did download from torrent link, but I never get any error when I used win32DiskImager

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            mitu Global Moderator @Pandasan
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            @pandasan At which step do you get the said error ? Are you using a NOOBS configured SD card and you're trying to resize a FAT32 partition ? Which image did you download from the RetroPie site ?

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              Pandasan @mitu
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              @mitu Downloaded from https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/4400/torrent-download-retropie
              Maybe the img file is corrupted ?
              I get the error when I start the Raspberry for the first time. No NOOBs inside, just the retropie install on the SD with Win32DiskImager. The error comes when the raspberry boot.

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                mitu Global Moderator @Pandasan
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                @pandasan Try to download the images directly from https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/releases/, not the berryboot flavor, but the regular ones:

                • retropie-4.3-rpi1_zero.img.gz if you have Raspberry Pi 1 or Zero (W)
                • retropie-4.3-rpi2_rpi3.img.gz if you have a Raspberry Pi 2 or 3

                Reformat you card first, to erase any previous partition list, and try the image for your RPI from the list above.

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                  Pandasan @mitu
                  last edited by Pandasan

                  @mitu I am trying to download it now, I got many time network error so that is why I used torrent link. But to be sure, a single partition FAT32 is enough right ?
                  Thank you for your support

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                    mitu Global Moderator @Pandasan
                    last edited by

                    @pandasan said in Official SD card not good ?:

                    But to be sure, a single partition FAT32 is enough right ?

                    Yes, it's enough.

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