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    • GreenHawk84

      Creating Backup IMG with Win32DiskImager
      Help and Support • backup image win32diskimager • • GreenHawk84

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      GreenHawk84

      @chaoseffect I think I got it, Win32DiskImager says something about formatting the E: drive after it writes, this time I selected nothing and put the SD card in the Pi4. Everything boots up as expected. I will use this new SDcard for a while to make sure everything is good.

    • Retrus

      Problem with backup using Windows
      Help and Support • win32diskimager backup image problem • • Retrus

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      Retrus

      @pjft said in Problem with backup using Windows:

      @retrus You may use rpi-clone to clone your card to another, smaller one, and then run the backup on Windows.

      https://github.com/billw2/rpi-clone

      Thanks for advice. I bought 2TB ssd :)

    • erbright

      Unable To Backup RetroPie Image
      Help and Support • backup win32diskimager iso ext2fsd backup image • • erbright

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      Crush

      @erbright said in Unable To Backup RetroPie Image:

      Win32DiskImager - Doesn’t work. I create the image and try to mount it to make sure it works and Windows tells me it's corrupted. This happens over and over again.

      This is all you needed to do, it did work, you just can't mount it under Windows.

    • pojr

      Wrote RetroPie image to SD card - TV shows "no signal"
      Help and Support • no signal hdmi win32diskimager etcher sd card • • pojr

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      Inglebard

      @pojr Cool, glad you got it! I meant to mention that one as well as I has tried it, but it didn't fix
      the issue for me.

    • DRB

      [SOLVED] How to shrink an SD card image
      Help and Support • shrink sd image sd image gparted win32diskimager small sd image • • DRB

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      dozerbuck

      @drb

      I created an account to say thanks and to also say I had better luck using "Rufus" to perform the iso to usb step.

      That ISO to USB tool just didn't want to work for me.

      Gparted was straight forward and I was able to resize my partition of my img so it would fit on another card.

      Thanks again!!!

    • beezerhale

      win32diskimager not recognizing sd card
      Help and Support • win32diskimager sd card retropie 4.4 • • beezerhale

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      beezerhale

      @mitu OK, strange, but I tried on a different laptop and it works fine. Made the backup. The other sd card backed up just fine on the laptop that this sd card would not. I'm not sure what the issue is, but it is done ... both sd cards backed up. Thanks again!

    • trkaiser77

      Errors writing .img files to SD Card.
      Help and Support • sd image win32diskimager windows 10 error code 21 help me please • • trkaiser77

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      trkaiser77

      I found the issue was with my USB to SD adapter. The image did contain partitions and windows detected a new USB storage device, halting the write operation. I had no issue when writing to SD on my laptop using a standard SD slot. Image is clean, well configured right out of the gate.

    • ashpi

      Unable to write image to SD card.
      Help and Support • sd card image issues win32diskimager • • ashpi

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      ashpi

      No I'm still using a normal pi3 although I am considering getting the 3b+. Im starting to believe that it's the actual image at fault as wrote a new official image to this card and other cards I have without issues.
      The strange thing is that win32 said it was read and completed fine. But now my backed up image seems to be 'broken' and unbootable when written to cards.
      Any ideas?

    • over

      Transfer everything from 64gb card to 128gb card
      Help and Support • image issues win32diskimager • • over

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      over

      @edmaul69 I´m pretty sure, I bought it at a large store, and when I record the retropie official image on it it works like a charm. Guess I´ll manually do the work then :) thank you for your reply my friend, wish you a nice week :)

    • Freakadude

      Strange cloned RetroPie Image issue!
      Help and Support • image clone win32diskimager backup kernel panic • • Freakadude

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      meleu

      @Freakadude said in Strange cloned RetroPie Image issue!:

      This is a self backup and restore issue/question.

      Sorry for assuming you were using a 3rd party image. I hope our fellows posts above helped you.

      Cheers!

    • groviar

      Win32diskimager - quick question about image size
      Help and Support • win32diskimager • • groviar

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      groviar

      Got it, thanks!

    • qbert

      Issues with using Win32
      General Discussion and Gaming • win32diskimager • • qbert

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      BuZz

      @qbert bad sdcard or bad image. that doesn't sound like an official image, so I would seek help from the source.

    • synack

      Script to resize / shrink win32 disk imager retropie images
      Help and Support • shrink resize win32diskimager clone sdcard • • synack

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      DaveHarper

      @MajorDangerNine Thanks - I'll check it out.

    • fefemae

      Win32 Disk Imager Issue... can't get .img on SD card
      Help and Support • win32diskimager sd card win32 dskimager win32disk error • • fefemae

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      3boysandagirl

      I am having the same issue above, not finding retro pie on the desk top, after the blue folder.

    • TheHeroBilly

      Creating backup images of RetroPie?
      Help and Support • help backup win32diskimager • • TheHeroBilly

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      Lukeydoo

      To create backups for my PI I use Win32 disk imager as I already had it installed from when setting up Retropie on to my SD card.

      There are some useful YouTube videos on to how to use the tool but effectively it's just the reverse process of how you got the image of retropie on the SD card but now you are copying an image off and storing it on a PC.

    • mineer64

      Win32DiskImager won't show RetroPie .img file
      Help and Support • help win32diskimager retropie • • mineer64

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      mineer64

      @rbaker switched computers and it worked no problem. Weird but oh well. Thanks!

    • blairquik

      retropie 4.0.2 image won't flash onto SD card
      Help and Support • image card sd card retropie 4.0.2 win32diskimager • • blairquik

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      Umroberto

      Is the micro SD card in a "normal"SD holder? Maybe write protection is on....

      I have a class 10 16Gb Sandisk and it worked straight away.
      http://n2.sdlcdn.com/imgs/a/n/5/SanDisk-SDSDQUAN-016G-G4A-16GB-SDL002017071-1-e591e.jpg

    • thrussmeister

      Win 32 Disk Imager backup!
      Help and Support • rom videomanager scraper win32diskimager • • thrussmeister

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      bazmonkey

      @rbaker said in Win 32 Disk Imager backup!:

      @thrussmeister It's the full card so when you do it, make sure that you have enough space on your hard drive....I didn't! I needed to find 30GB of space to save the image.

      Assuming your SD card isn't actually full, and assuming you have enough space to temporarily store the full image, it should compress very nicely for storage.