Raspberry not booting. You are my last hope Obiwan

[Gatlinggoon]

Hi iam having isues with my installation of Retropie and could realy use a hand :)

I have been reading up on retropie for a while and finally got my hands on my Raspberry pi 3.
so i formated the sd card put noobs lite on there and plugged everything in just to see if the hardware worked, and it did.
So i formated the sd with the SD formater tool agin and installed the retropie 4.1 image for Raspberry Pi 3 with the Win32DiskImager. It tells me that the writing was successfull. I plug the sd into the raspberry setup that worked with noobs before and all i get is a solid red light.
What am i doing wrong? did i mess up?

[BuZz]

@Gatlinggoon Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

Which image ? Did you unpack it ? Did you check the md5sum with the one published on the site to make sure it's not corrupt ? (You can get a free window tool to check md5sum - eg http://md5summer.org/)

[Gatlinggoon]

thank you for reminding me of the red-this-first thread but i have already gone through that to the best of my limited abillity.

I used the image provided by the retropie download site 4.1 for raspberry 2 and 3

I did not unpack the image i used the win32diskimager selected the image and the microsd and chose the write option.

the checksum checks out

[BuZz]

@Gatlinggoon You need to decompress it first - Please follow the installation instructions - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/First-Installation/#extract

[Gatlinggoon]

i was wondering why the ending was gz, thx a bunch i didnt know that ending ment it was compressed

[Gatlinggoon]

it works, you just made my day. thx a lot man :)

[herb_fargus]

@BuZz btw in case you weren't aware etcher writes gz images. Almost wondering if we should recommend that instead of win32diskimager. Doesn't have a backup option (yet) but I believe it's on their to-do list

[BuZz]

@herb_fargus sounds good.