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    SD Card Formatting

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    • HalvhjearneH
      Halvhjearne
      last edited by

      try this:
      https://rufus.ie/

      if that dosnt work, i suggest trying to remove all partitions from the sdcard and then try again.
      if it still fails, its most likely you sdcard that gave up.

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      • EfriimE
        Efriim @leejones15
        last edited by Efriim

        @leejones15
        Ya'll gotta saddle up into your good old windows command prompt.
        .
        Hi-ho, Win+R! Away!
        throw a lasso round the "cmd" press enter when you got her.
        now you gotta break her
        Type diskpart
        wait for her to settle down.
        list disk
        and make sure you got the right one.
        select disk x
        clean
        create partition primary
        and there you go she's yours.

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        • HalvhjearneH
          Halvhjearne @Efriim
          last edited by

          @Efriim said in SD Card Formatting:

          @leejones15
          Ya'll gotta saddle up into your good old windows command prompt.
          .
          Hi-ho, Win+R! Away!
          throw a lasso round the "cmd" press enter when you got her.
          now you gotta break her
          Type diskpart
          wait for her to settle down.
          list disk
          and make sure you got the right one.
          select disk x
          clean
          create partition primary
          and there you go she's yours.

          why create a new partition when he is about to write an image to the card right after and why not use the graphical interface, if he writes he is no expert?

          right click your windows icon and i belive its called "diskmanager" or something similar

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          • EfriimE
            Efriim @Halvhjearne
            last edited by

            @Halvhjearne
            It looked to me like the logical thing to do, but there we go down our separate paths.

            Extended partitions cant be broke by using disk management.

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            • L
              leejones15
              last edited by

              I'm no expert, but I can handle command prompt...
              I actually tried that already and get this error. RESCAN and restarting doesn't help.

              DiskPart has referenced an object which is not up-to-date.
              Refresh the object by using the RESCAN command.
              If the problem persists exit DiskPart, then restart DiskPart or restart the
              computer.
              
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              • EfriimE
                Efriim @leejones15
                last edited by Efriim

                occasionally you need to reset the drive,
                did you try to
                remove volume
                delete partition
                clean
                I don't know if it can make it much worse, but recreating the logical partition might be challenging, and if it works now you might as well keep it, and use something else for the pi.

                Or maybe it is something with your computers mount assignments or even a ricoh sd driver, did you try different adapter, different port, different computer?

                Sorry that I couldnt help.

                Do you have a phone you can use to format with?
                and if that doesn't work, it should be the adapter, but what I don't know.

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                • HalvhjearneH
                  Halvhjearne @Efriim
                  last edited by Halvhjearne

                  @Efriim said in SD Card Formatting:

                  @Halvhjearne
                  It looked to me like the logical thing to do, but there we go down our separate paths.

                  Extended partitions cant be broke by using disk management.

                  that is not true.
                  and considdering it is most likely just a frontend for the command prompt, i dont see why it would work with one and not the other.

                  Do you have a phone you can use to format with?

                  that however will most likely not work.

                  @leejones15 said in SD Card Formatting:

                  I'm no expert, but I can handle command prompt...
                  I actually tried that already and get this error. RESCAN and restarting doesn't help.

                  it sounds like either your sd card or your cardreader has gone bad, try a diffrent sdcard with the reader and see it the same happends, if it dosnt, then its most likely something wrong with that sdcard.

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                  • rbakerR
                    rbaker @leejones15
                    last edited by

                    @leejones15 Are you unpacking the download to reveal the image first, they are compressed? You must do this if you are using Win32DiskImager. Etcher does not require you to unpack first. Are you saying that you are taking the card out of the Pi after you have written the image and are then placing it in a laptop? If so, you are effectively placing a linux based system into a windows PC and will prompt you to format. Describe the order of everything that you did according to https://retropie.org.uk/docs/First-Installation/#installation so we can suggest further things to try. Maybe the SD card is faulty or not compatible with a Pi?

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                    • EfriimE
                      Efriim @leejones15
                      last edited by

                      @leejones15
                      I found this for the error you referenced using DiskPart.
                      Open the properties of the drive, right-click
                      click the hardware tab,
                      open the usb device properties from the list,
                      click the volume tab
                      and then click populate

                      Also if the drive no longer has a mount assignment or letter.
                      You can select the volume in diskpart and just type assign

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                      • EfriimE
                        Efriim
                        last edited by Efriim

                        Or maybe I overlooked, or jumped the gun on what was the problem.
                        If you see the pretty rainbow screen then you wrote the image correctly.
                        It may be very likely as I was reminded in the forums that there are different versions of the retropie image that will work for the different raspberry pi models. The pi 1/zero are bundled up into one image and the pi 2/3 are bundled into a different image, with older images not supporting the pi3b+.
                        I don't know about the 1b+

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