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      itsmelos
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      I've attempted to search the forum to see if anyone else is having this issue, but can't seem to find the answer. Sorry!!!

      I have a RP 4, and I've made multiple attempts to install Rpie on a 32gb sd card, but when I do, it creates a 250mg boot partition. Windows then asks me if I want to partition the remainder of the card, and when I attempt to format it the partition is only 2.64 GB.

      I've formatted the drive using multiple programs (SD card formatter, and the internal windows formatting app) and all the times it shows 29.4 GB of space available after the fresh format.

      I've used Etcher, and Win32 disk imager to install the Rpie image, and on every occasion the card gets reformatted and the same partitions are created... Is this normal? What can I do to be able to use the rest of the SD card space for rom storage?

      Any help you could give would be greatly appreciated.

      Thank you!!!

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        YFZdude @itsmelos
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        @itsmelos

        When you write the RetroPie image to the SD card, it is creating two partitions.
        The first is a boot partition in FAT32 filesystem that is about 250MB as you have already seen.
        The second is a GNU/Linux partition in the ext filesystem. Windows will not see this unless you install special software. But that is okay, we really don't need Windows to see it.

        As soon as you are done writing the image to the card, just stop and don't let Windows format anything. Insert the card into your Pi 4 and start it up.

        https://retropie.org.uk/docs/First-Installation/

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