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    Unable to boot after backing up sd-card

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      evilmurray
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      I have set up my RetroPie with all the systems I want. A friend at work wanted a copy of my SD-card in order to quickly get started.

      Both are using Raspberry Pi 4. Both SD-cards are 128 GB (mine is SandDisk, his is Verbatim). I used ApplePiBaker to make the image and copied it to the other card.

      My friends card didn´t work in his or mine RPI. And my card didn´t work in his or mine RPI after the backup.

      See attatched screenshot for the message I get when trying to boot my card on my RPI. Any input would be of great help.

      IMG_4687.jpg

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        helloThere
        last edited by helloThere

        I had a similar problem with mine, but I'm not entirely sure what solved it. I'll just talk you through what I tried before mine managed to start working.

        Assuming you still have a way to get an image of the card, you can use balena etcher (available on MacOS) or a windows machine/windows emulator like parallel desktops and use win32diskimager.

        Just make sure to use disk utility to erase the cards you will use beforehand.

        The next option is getting a fresh sd card with a fresh version of retropie and checking if that works. Here's a link to info related to saving from the docs that could help. Good luck

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          evilmurray
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          Thanks for your reply. I´ll give it a whirl :)

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