Help with images.
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Hi, I am new to the form and Retropie. I’m trying to burn and image to my 128 sdcard. I have been at this for a week now and I’m not have any luck. I read multiple things online and can’t figure out what I am doing wrong. The process below was done on 3 separate cards. I’ll go through what I have done up to date. First I format the card to fat32 and it verifies that it is fat32 with Linux diskessentials. So then weather I use either windisk32 or etcher it creates two partitions a boot on and then the main one. So when it’s all done writing I put it in the raspberry and nothing blank screen I let it sit for a few min nothing. So I wanted to see what was on the card I loaded up the Linux disc essentials again and it shows the two partitions the boot one is 57meg and the other shows blank nothing, the weird thing is that both changed their format the little is now fat16 and the big one us exfat32.???? That what I don’t understand. So I thought maybe a corrupt image and I got another on and another one and these all happen. It doesn’t matter with etcher or windisk32. So then I went over a friends house and borrowed his card and it works as soon as I put it in. So I created an image with windisk32 and burned that one same thing that one is only a 64. Someone please help me before I go insane.....
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@wyldside Your friend's card has RetroPie installed or just some other Linux distro ? Did you write the RetroPie image on your friend's card and it worked ?
The image, once written on the sd card, contains indeed 2 partitions - a boot partition which is fat32 and can be read from Windows and a Linux partition which cannot read from Windows. So the result of writing should be similar to what you're experiencing when looking at the sdcard from windows.
As for why the system does not boot - please give us more details - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.
Are you sure you have the right image for your PI ? There are 2 images on the site, one for PI1/Pi zero and one for Pi2/Pi3 systems.
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@mitu Hey that’s for the quick reply. I was going insane lol.
So the images I got are for the Pi3 version b is the system that I have. I am assuming they are for the pi3 according to the comments.
The images I tried are madlittle pixels, some space one that’s a 64 that was a testing one thought maybe it’s the card space. The other one was we are dirty gaming. The two are 128 and a 64 but I downloaded them twice over that past two weeks.
For the booting issues I put the card in and nothing happens. With the good card you see the scrolling as it unpacks or sets up they the retropie joystick then emulation station logo.
My new flashed cards show nothing.
I’m flashing again, I formatted, deleted all partitions and then formatted with fat32 the whole card. It shows 125 formatted with fat32.
Do you think it’s the cards? What can I be doing wrong I followed all the steps.
Thank you so much for the help.
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@wyldside I'm sorry, but we don't support 3rd party images, as indicated in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first. You should ask the author of those images about this problem.
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@mitu oh, ok I’m sorry I’m all new to this.
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