Please Help!
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@rbaker at one time I had everything downloaded. Emulators were working, every thing showed up on screen like expected. I don't know if when I took the sd card out that it damaged it. But it was fine just full and wouldn't let me set up the controller because the pi had no more room
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@Fastcat4 You are describing what to me sounds like a corrupt card. Regardless of it you bought it as a kit or not. I can bundle stuff together into a kit and sell it, but it doesn't mean much more than I've put a raspberry sticker on the SD card to micro SD card adapter then shipped them to you all together.
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@Fastcat4 You mean the card had no more room? This is unlikely if simply configuring a controller. What concerns me though is that you still have not posted what was requested in post 2! And, what is your power supply? why you don't post this stuff after being asked multiple times is quite frankly astonishing.
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@rbaker raspberry pi 3 model b v1.2, power adapter output :5v 2.5a , love rpi 8gb sd card. Because it had worked in the past I didn't see the point. But the pi was giving me the error message that ot didn't have enough space to install kodi or xboxdvr to use controller
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@Fastcat4 which image exactly did you download and burn to your sd card? Please name it exactly, the file name of the image you burned using Win 32 disk imager
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@Fastcat4 said in Please Help!:
didn't have enough space to install... xboxdvr to use controller
As a quick sidebar, it should be noted that unless you plan on key-mapping your controller, you should really be using the Xpad driver, as detailed here.
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@Fastcat4 ok, do you notice how I am working my way down the list and asking for the things in post 2 again? If you had posted, we would have been past this stage in seconds? Next you need to post what you did to burn the image and which guide you followed.
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@Fastcat4 Also, did you pull the sd card out with Pi powered up?
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@rbaker I opened win 32. Selected the file from the file from the desk top and clicked write to write it to the sd card
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@Fastcat4 did you unzip the image download in order to reveal the writable image?
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@rbaker yes before I started over
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@Fastcat4 did you pull the card with the power on?
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@rbaker yes
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@Fastcat4 removing the card with the power on can corrupt it. Have you tried an alternative card? What guide did you follow when using Win 32 disk imager? Did you format the card according to the wiki before writing the image file?
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@rbaker I'm not sure what guide. But I formatted to fat 32. Before writing with win 32. Have tried another card because I don't have one but looks like is the next option.
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@Fastcat4 Have you read any of the wiki yet?
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@rbaker yes. And watched pretty much every eta prime. And retropie for beginners video on you tube.
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@Fastcat4 If you've read the wiki it details how to burn an image to a card and this was the guide that @rbaker was asking about. The more you skirt around these details that are asked of you, the harder it is to determine what you've done, so what may have gone wrong in that process.
We're not asking these things to be awkward, we're asking so we know what setup you've got and how you got there so we can try and break down what may have happened to give you this issue.
The more you ignore what is asked, the less chance anyone can figure out how to help you, or even have the patience to stick around and help you.
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@Fastcat4 If you pulled your card with the power on, watched
[removed], followed it, got a blinking green light, I conclude that you have a bad card that can no longer be read - did you say it formatted ok after you pulled it? You need another card to test. This didn't need 35+ posts by the way, just follow the info in the second post in future to save people time and energy because you yourself said "I will try to do better" (in post 3) which kind of suggested that you agreed with post 2 and would do it. Also, your post title is not helpful to other searchers, a better one would be "cannot get pi to boot after reformat" and there are many suggestions posted on the forum already. This title together with your setup info leads to faster solutions.
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