Micro SD card being read as being way smaller
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I put a 128 GB card into my pc and used Raspberry Pi Imager to image the SD card using the on designed for my pi (3b+) after inserting it into the pie and running it tells me to configure the region and I didnt know how to but I assumed it had to be done on PC, after putting the card back into my pc it now reads as being 256 Mb. How do I fix the issue and why did it do this in the first place?
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@nicole After writing the Retropie image to the SD card, 2 partitions will be created into the card, the first one (256 MB) containing boot files and configurations for the raspberry pi, the second one, will handle the Linux operating system which Retropie works from within. The Retropie partition is unreadable by Windows.
After booting the raspberry pi with the SD card, Retropie will expand the second partition to ensure the entire available space from the card is ready. This is done only once the first time you turn on the raspberry pi with the card. Follow the steps on the screen.
Please take a look at https://retropie.org.uk/docs/First-Installation/
If you need to recover your SD card as it was before writing the image, please use:
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