@Lloltic Every card is a little different. That being said, if you have a card formatted in one format it will show a different amount of disk space in another.

It sounds like you have downloaded/backed up a pre-built image and are trying to burn it to a new card. The best thing you can do is burn it to the SD card and see if it will fit. Let the application tell you it won't, not your eyes. The other suggestion is to use PiShrink to shrink it down.

Keep in mind if it is a 3rdparty image you'll be hard-pressed to find support for it here if you do get it going.

@isrnick I second this method. I don't know what started causing it but after a certain point every card I re-write I have to delete partitions/volumes.

@simonster I had totally forgotten that I used a USB to transfer the last time and not the SD card. This should fix the problem. Thank you!

I have the same issue... sort of... I'm running a pidrive and put an image on it... worked beautifully... I started adding more roms... then got to a point where it told me I didn't have any more room... I have a terabyte tho... I tried expanding the file system and says sda2 is not an sd card... it won't let me... So i'm in the same boat as you... I saw noobs is an option but I have not tried it... I'm not sure if it will mess with my image or not...

@markyh444 Thanks a bunch! I read through it and it does look very tricky. I'm thinking it may just be easier to do a fresh install to be on the safe side. Thanks again!

@sensorypower860 read the documentation.