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    Oops, I broke Retropie Setup. Question about re-imaging.

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      chrisdodgen
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      I accidentally powered down during an update of God knows what. I had selected "update all installed packages" from the Retropie setup menu, and it was somewhere in the middle of that process.

      Now emulation station still runs, but I can't access anything in retropie - not retropie setup, run command configuration, nor file manager.

      I'm going to just blow this up and start over.

      My question is…can I do that? Rather, can I easily do that? Can I just use windisk32 and rewrite the image directly over this one without doing anything else? Or is there some other reformat process I have to go through first?

      Rpi 3 • Rpi Zero 1.3 • Rpi Zero W
      Retropie Version 4.2
      Theme - Futura
      Emulators - All of them.

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        meleu @chrisdodgen
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        @chrisdodgen said in Oops, I broke Retropie Setup. Question about re-imaging.:

        Can I just use windisk32 and rewrite the image directly over this one without doing anything else?

        Absolutely yes! When you write an image to a SD card all the previous data is overwritten.

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