Hit a brick wall with Raspberry Pi purchase number 2!

DM24

Hi all

Cheers for reading...

So I got a Pi 3 a few weeks back, installed RetroPie perfectly and all is good. Thought I will buy another and hook up to the TV in the spare room. Well I now can't seem to install it...

Using Win32DiskImager - when I try write the image (the correct one for Pi 2/3) to my microSD card I get, error 32: the process cannot access the file...
So I figure I'll buy another microSD card. Try again today and same issue, error 32
Now tried Roadkill instead. Image writes fine, put into Pi and connect to TV and just get a solid red light on the Pi
I've plugged in my successful microSD card and that boots fine on the Pi, thus negating a defective Pi

Am at a loss for what to try now if I'm honest. I'm downloading the image again as we speak, just in case thats the issue, but can't think of anything else!

Any help appreciated

DM24

@DM24 also to add. Tried re-installing and using older versions of Win32DiskImager, still the same error 32

senkun

@DM24 said in Hit a brick wall with Raspberry Pi purchase number 2!:

Win32DiskImager

The fact that you managed to get a working install on your first sdcard is a good sign. DId you unzip the downloaded retropie image before using w32diskimager? Try another usb port on your computer? Or did you use a usb hub the first time? Try to replicate what you did for the first successful install.

What happens with these errors is sometimes as the image starts being written, Windows sees the new partition table and tries to take over and fugs up the write handle in win32diskimager.

DM24

@senkun Thanks for the reply. So I've tried every USB port, the internal SD reader and still no luck

I've just re-downloaded the image from an old mirror torrent and it seems to now be installing to the card, maybe it was just a corrupt .img file!

Fingers crossed

DM24

Argh - same issue again, just a red light on the Pi and not booting

Github seems to of got a little quicker so trying the most upto date image file again

edmaul69

@DM24 why dont you stick the good sd card into the computer and use win32diskimager to "read" the sd card making an image file of your good sd card. Then "write"that one to the new sd card.

dankcushions

did you unzip the image before installing? ie, it should have a .img extension, not img.gz

senkun

@dankcushions

DId ask the same thing.

@senkun said in Hit a brick wall with Raspberry Pi purchase number 2!:

DId you unzip the downloaded retropie image before using w32diskimager?

JFamily

Sounds like something on your computer is accessing the .img and is therefor locked. So the old IT saying: "Can you try to restart the computer and reproduce the issue?"

Shakz

@DM24 Are you running Win32DiskImager as Admin?