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All too familiar, sorry man! I’ve made it into a habit to make an image backup once everything is configured and running correctly (I know too late now but for future reference).
Win 32 Diskimage for Windows
Apple Pi Baker for OSX.
It's insanely easy to set up.
The hardest part is honestly getting the right program to make the USB installer.
This has always worked out well for me. Good luck. If you like the mac interface I'm sure you'll like the Ubuntu one.
If you have any questions you can PM me!
This sounds like you copied the image file to the SD card. This won't work. Assuming you using windows, download and run a copy of Win32DiskImager. Once Win32DiskImager is running, Select the drive letter that corresponds to the SD card and the extracted image file of the OS. Then click on the Write Button. Once it finishes, put the SD card into the pi and plug in the USB cable to give it power.
1st: Use SD Formatter to cleanly erase the old install: https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/
2nd: Use Win32 Disk Imager to transfer the image: https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/files/latest/download
If you downloaded the NOOBS file you will not need to do step 2, just copy the unzipped files to the newly formatted card.
Try using 7zip to decompress the zip file rather than Windows, I've had Windows do some strange things to disk images. http://www.7-zip.org/download.html
(P.S. Sorry that I assumed you have a Windows machine; these are the most accessible tools to use.)
Wouldn't it have been easier to just use Win32 Disk Imager to create an image of the SD card? It's pretty much always listed when searching for writing and reading images off SD cards, especially in the Raspberry Pi realm.
Anyway, really cool video. Probably one of my favorites of yours. Long-time viewer here :)
On the partitions: You can put it all in two. One for everything, and one for swap. But people recommend files and boot and even OS on a different partition to make changing it easy. My UEFI has the bios boot, the uefi boot, the OS, files, and swap all on separate partitions. I also like and have my files on a different drive so all OS operations to disk get their own cache and don't chunk down when loading big files from HDD while loading the program its self, too. To avoid accidental formatting in Arch, use Antergos or just quadruple double check your mounts when mounting partitions and such. Do an "lsblk" and write down the drive letters E.g. /dev/sda = HDD, /dev/sdb=SSD, /dev/sda1=EUFI, /dev/sda2=BIOS, etc. Mount them like it says in the install guide, confirm with the paper doubly, and should be okay. The only thing that can enable formatting the wrong one is yourself.
And you should partition the blank spaces on the drive with Windows, you should format the actual partition in Arch, or just do what I do and use a Linux Mint Live USB and format them using gparted. You can do it in Linux completely at any step, but I don't like not doing the Windows partitions in Windows.
And yes, you can have them. Post the chipset info here and we'll tell you what to expect, and then how to make it work. It's pretty simple today, and most chipsets do just work now. Only a few older ones, or bleeding edge ones are trouble. You can get this info from the Mint live USB also.
Use win32 disk image writer to write the USB. In Linux you use DD or setup a multiboot USB. https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
I've written a TON, and I mean a ton of Arch isos. Use Win32DiskImager in windows to do it... never ever.. and i mean ever fails.
If it does.... you have bios settings issues.
NTFS won't work, it needs to be FAT32 if you're using that tool.
Alternately you can use win32diskimager to write the iso the the USB drive. **this will erase everything on the drive**
I recommend you to make a backup image of the 32GB card. https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
Zip or extracted depends on the emulator. ;)
Folder structure isnt that important, you can chose the folder in every emulator.
Power off is under settings, dont use the power button for power off it can corrupt the filesystem.
The 2nd sd card is mounted in /media
All you have to do is complete one and then clone that SD card making the other 10 a matter of putting them into your PC and clicking the "write image" button.
I usually use: Win32 Disk Imager
You'd need to clone it rather than just copy/paste the SD contents but yeah, it should be fine for the same kind of Pi.
To clone it use any kind of disk imager that people would use to make backups of a system and the write the backup to a new card. Many people would use something like Win32DiskImager.
AFAIK, the Google drive backup add-on still creates the snapshot locally. Your best bet might be to just make an image file from the SD card on some computer other than the RPi with a tool such as this one.
Two things:
Turn off online updates. Don't connect to the internet. It downloads updates from the Ubuntu repositories on install that break it. Just run the update after install.
If you're not, use Win32DiskImager to create the USB and it should work https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
I had this same issue just a few days ago and it drove me nuts until this fixed it.
You can use the shortcut Ctrl+Alt+F4 to get to tty4 where the Debian installer outputs a log of what it is doing. Look there for a more detailed error message. For me it was Ctrl+Alt+F5 to get back to the graphical installer.
On IRC I have seen people have similar problems because of how they wrote the installer ISO to USB. Programs like unetbootin and etcher try to repack Debian ISOs which is not necessary and can cause problems.
If you have another Linux system just use cp to copy the ISO. On Windows win32diskimager is known to work (hint: in the Open dialog set to show all files).
Backup your sd card: https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/ download and install the win32 disk imager utility shutdown your raspberry pi with the sudo shutdown now command take the sd card out of the pi and put it into a reader in your computer if the first partition doesn't get a drive letter assigned, goto the Disk Manager in your computer and assign a drive letter to the first partition on the sd card start win32 disk imager browse for a location and give the backup a name like <date> raspberry pi.img click the read button on the application to backup your sd card to an image
Optionally, you can use rufus, but that will require free space on your computer equal to the size of the sdcard.
Hm.
OK, let's try Method 3. Download the installer .iso file (not the .zip file), and use it as a disk image. This will render your USB stick unusable for general-purpose data, until it's been 100% reformatted, but might give you better luck.
If you're on Windows, try Rufus or Win32 Disk Imager:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
On Mac or Linux, use dd.
clarify what you mean by a 'simple' copy. There are not hidden 'sectors'. But there are several partitions on the card. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylinder-head-sector ) Several of these partitions are NOT normally accessible via windows.
If you mean 'simple' as in Drag/drop the files from whatever partitions windows can access - then No - that is NOT a clone.
You want to 'image' the entire card to a file - that will be a clone of the card with all data, and partition layout.
This can be done with numerous tools depending on what OS you want to do the cloning in.
dd in linux is a common tool for this - but there are alternatives.
in windows this is commonly used.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
Good Luck.
Canakit is nice, pay $5 more and get the one with 32GB card. Then all you gotta do is download and burn an image onto the microSD card and its plug and play (configure your controller and GO!!).
Here is a list of all the card images http://www.arcadepunks.com/retro-pie-downloads-page-date-added/
You need to do the following things 1) Download the image you want (I chose the [32gb]-32gb.Ultimate.v2.Image-Damaso) via torrent
2) Format your SD card (I used https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/)
3) Write image to your 32GB card (https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/)
The only skills you need to get a raspberry pie up and going are torrent downloading skills, and SD card formatting and imaging. You could be up and going in an hour from when you open the amazon package (IF YOU DOWNLOAD THE IMAGE AHEAD OF TIME).
if you have generally no experience in linux you will really become desperate. installing arch on odroid is one thing, to configure it for your needs and maintain it is the hard part. did you know that you wont have any GUI after install?
you really should start with the ubuntu image. you will get a ready to use desktop which runs ootb. download the image and use this windows tool to write it to your sd/emmc
if you still want to have arch you have to investigate for yourself. first place is the odroid forum.
My install was surprisingly easy.
Download Ubuntu 17.04 https://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop
I have three drives: 2 SSD and one HDD. I gave one SSD dedicated to Ubuntu, so using disk management in windows 10 I removed the entire partition.
Once the ISO was downloaded I then downloaded win32 Disk imager: https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/ Installed that and flashed the ISO to a thumb drive (after I formatted it).
After checking if fastboot was disabled (in bios) (and turning on virtualization for future VM use) I Booted off the thumb drive, selected "Install Ubuntu" from the dropdown in grub.
From there I just followed screen prompts, selecting 'download updates while installing', making sure I had an internet connection. I also selected 'install third party software'. I chose the "Install Ubuntu alongside window boot manager" and made sure that the popup referenced the correct SSD. I let Ubuntu choose the default directory and partition structure it wanted, and since it was an SSD I let it put any swap partition on the same SSD.
The install went smoothly after that.
Windows has troubles reading the partitions commonly used by the various Linux flavors utilized by Raspberry Pi's.
OP need to get the official SD card formatting utility, which handles these sorts of complications:
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/
Under "Options" you have to select "Format Size Adjustment."
That should get the card back to a (full-size) blank state.
For installing a new RPi OS I suggest Win32Disk Imager:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
Download the OS image, select the image file and SD card, and write. Once done, eject, insert into RPi, and power on to finish install/setup.
Maybe try a Windows support forum? I figured Windows would have a tool for this.. but there are free options if it doesn't:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
If you don't manage to get a disc made, then you can still get one from OSDisc.com and have it delivered.
Guessing you're working on a Windows machine: Have you tried Win32 Disk Imager?
Usually images replace all the partitioning on a device with their own, so it won't matter if a card is still with a wrongly formatted partition.
Step 1: Download an OS image file. Several can be found here.
Step 1a: You may want to consider an Android-based system first. Ubuntu and other Linux images are probably not a great place to start if you are a novice to this sort of thing, as support is not yet fully developed and you will almost certainly run into driver issues, graphics acceleration issues, etc.
Step 2: use a tool like Win32DiskImager or dd to write the OS image to your SD card.
Step 3: Put the SD card in your Pine64 and turn it on. That's it!
Step 3a: In some cases, you'll next need to expand the filesystem to fill the entire SD card right after your first boot. Some distributions do it automatically. Check the documentation for the image you download to see if there are further post-boot instructions!
Here's what I suggest. Get a decent SD card and, when you get it all setup properly, use WinXPDiskImager to create a backup. Then if, and when, it unfortunately does give out, you'll be able to just pop it into a computer and just restore to a backup image without any issue at all. Easy peasy.
So I know there are a lot of recommendations to use Rufus. Personally, never been a fan.
There is a great little alternative that I love called the Win32 Disk Imager that is basically a graphical frontend for the Unix `dd` command that has been ported to Windows. Successfully writes to and from a device like a thumb drive.
The program is open source and you can download it (and the source code) by going to https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/files/latest/download?source=navbar
I use SDFormatter to format my cards, then I use Win32DiskImager to transfer the image after its formatted.
Be sure to format the card as FAT32 (use SD FORMATTER https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/ ) - Another option is to download an IMAGE of Raspbian https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/ and write the image with Win32 Disk Imager https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
If you have accesso to a linux box or macos you could make an image of the 32gb card using dd, then you write it to the 64gb card, and I'm pretty sure there is a tool to expand the filesystem already in place.
EDIT: On windows give a look to this https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/, I cant give it a try right now, but it seems capable to read a card, make an image, then write the same image onto a bigger card. Then it's all about expanding the 32gb image to fit the new card and retropie does it by default after installation, so there is a tool, maybe in the options menu.
if all you are doing is playing games, then yeah. you can get the images here: https://retropie.org.uk/
Reformat the card you're having issues with (I prefer to use SDFormatter )
Then write the image to the SD card. (I use Win32 disk imager )
No NOOBS necessary
Sure! Have you written a Raspberry Pi disk image to an SD card before?
You should be able to download the latest NOOBS image from the Raspberry Pi Foundation's website.
Are you on Windows? If so, there's a free program called Win32 Disk Imager that you can use to write the NOOBS image to your SD card.
I'd also recommend using the SD Association's Formatter to format your SD card before writing the image.
I always used Win32DiskImager for copying SD cards. Not sure for the touch panels whether the mac address comes from the SD card or some NV / EE on the hardware.
Image the "bad" card first if it will let you.
Maybe try something like Win32 Disk Imager?
Edit: Actually you might have better luck with Etcher or Rufus.
I'm using EmuNAND currently as I had been setup with RXTools a while ago and just recently converted to Lumia3DS, which all works with the 8gb card I have already. I just wanted to grow to the 32gb card. I made an image via Win32DiskImager from my old card, and wrote it to my new card. Then used EaseUs partition Manager to resize the drive to full size and it worked for me. After I got done with that I did see /u/-Thnift- 's suggestion of search terms and found a similar process posted on here from GBA temp (here's the post). I'm all up and working, just make sure to not overwrite your existing SD card when making the image.
Use Win32 diskimager, just select the right USB drive.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
Then click on the device image and choose the uncompressed deli.img from the bz2 archive.
Remember, the bz2 is a compressed image, (kinda like zip), you have to uncompress it first.
Yes.
Doesn't matter, but sp3 if you can get it. So XP Pro SP3, the first one you listed.
Figure out how to get into the bios first.
Run faster is relative, there are certain things that CAN run faster, but all things equal, they probably would run the same speed.
When it's first starting up, press F12, it will bring up the boot menu, then just select USB.
Is this what you have: http://www.amazon.com/10-Inch-Netbook-Processor-Storage-Battery/dp/B001GIPSAC
So from your comments it seems you might be kinda lost. Here is what you need to do, since you don't have a CDROM.
Get the operating system disc image, which it seems you have access to. So Windows XP Pro sp3.
You need a program to write this disc image onto your USB stick, I like WIN32DiskImage a lot, it has never let me down.
After you write the OS to the stick, stick it in your PC, and boot, when it posts the startup screen repeatedly press F12. This should bring up the boot menu. Select your USB stick, sometimes there are multiple "USB-" options... USB-CDROM should work, or USB-HDD... etc.. .try them all till you find the one that works.
Then just follow the instructions to install Windows XP. I would delete any partitions, and just format the entire drive with NTFS. This should give you a clean install with all the space you need.
The only problems you should have is if F12 isn't the key to bring up the boot menu, sometimes it's something else. When the computer boots, it SHOULD list it on the screen.
hope this was clear enough.
check out some of the many tools listed at
https://www.pendrivelinux.com/
for making a USB.
or find some other tools that support windows 7.
googling just now found...
Wouldn’t the PiBoy require the stock image as a starting point to ensure it has all of the required shutdown scripts, LED controls, etc.? Or maybe those could be easily added to an existing non-PiBoy Retropie image?
For copying an SD card, I would create an image from the original and then flash a new card using this software: https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
Wouldn’t the PiBoy require the stock image as a starting point to ensure it has all of the required shutdown scripts, LED controls, etc.? Or maybe those could be easily added to an existing non-PiBoy Retropie image?
For copying an SD card, I would create an image from the original and then flash a new card using this software: https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
When formatting SD cards, I've always found it best to use the Official SD card formatter.
When writing an image out, it doesn't matter what you format the card as, the image is going to set it up its own format anyway. I have found it best to format with the official formatter first, to clear away any partitioning that might have been set up.
For flashing, use Etcher on Linux/Mac/Windows, or Win 32 Disk Imager on Windows. Anything else may or may not work, there's no need to bother with other tools.
Make sure you "burn" the image to the SD disk, not copy and paste.
I format them to FAT16 before I burn the image to a drive, Not Fat32 like the 8gb cards.
If balana etcher is having a problem, I use Win32 Disk Imager (link below). It seems that the etcher program doesn't like my laptop's SD drive and always fails check.
Use SD card formatter and win32diskImager software. If it still causes a problem in the wrong with your memory card arkos is much bigger ROM then elec it could be writing to a bad sector on your SD card. Ive flash so many times and never had one problem the problem is your memory card.
In order to upgrade your microSD card, you first have to image the new one. Download Win32 Disk Imager and download the .img file. Connect your new microSD to your computer with an adapter, and open the disk imager program. Make sure the right drive is selected in the Device section in the top right of the window. Click the folder icon next to the Device section and select the .img file you downloaded. At the bottom, click Write. If a warning pops up, don't worry about it and click Yes. Then unplug and plug the microSD back into the computer and it should ask you to format it. Do so only once, and make sure its exFAT and has a 64 KB allocation unit size. Once you've formatted it, you can transfer any files on the old card onto the new one and the Vita should read it just fine.
Just periodically take an image of your OS drive so you don't even have to think about it.
Not sure what your hardware setup is, but for example if you're running OMV off of a Raspberry Pi with an SD card as the OS disk, it's pretty easy to take a periodic backup image:
- Shut down OMV/the Pi
- Remove the SD card
- Attach SD card to a PC
- Run Win32 Disk Imager to "Read" the SD card to a .img file
Did you make an image of the SDCard before installing it? One should always keep a backup before tinkering with things. :)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/ is a great way to generate img files of complete sdcards, as well as restore img files back to sdcards.
If you're on Windows, you'll need to use Win32DiskImager to write the provided image to an SD card through your PC. Be sure you're writing to the correct drive letter. Once that's finished, just pop your SD card in your raspberrypi.
>I don't know whether the simplified graphical tools like etcher can do it in the opposite direction as well
In my early RasPi days I've used https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
Works both ways!
Still works fine on Win10. It's really weird Etcher doesn't support reading from a physical drive.
btw: You can save space compressing* the IMG files if you want to keep a backup that's only as small as it's used space instead of keeping a byte-by-byte copy.
*using WinRAR (haven't tried 7-ZIP in years because RAR5 was faster on my old PC)
So, welcome to the image to SD card tombola. I had the same thing, and it seems t9o be a crapshoot to get it to work.
However: Download the original or rogue edition firmware. Download the SD Formatter app, Format the card twice.
The best is to use the 16GB it came with, but don't use anything bigger than 32GB as this is the biggest FAT32 supports - and the card has to be FAT32 to be recognized.
after having formatted the SD card, twice, you use win32Diskimager to "burn" the image to the SD card.
You then eject the SD card using the "Eject" icon in the lower right corner, also known as "safe remove".
Put the card in, plug the power cord in, and start it up. It may take a while for it to get going, but not more than 5 minutes.
This is how I got it to work, god knows why, but I can only share what I know. It does work better using the 16GB SD as the image seems to be better accepted - for some reason./
You may also want to do the formatting and burning one time over... like i said, it just works sometimes
https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/ run this, with the sd card attached to your computer, select disk image, write to disk (make sure the letter is your sd card) put sd back in ez flash and turn on
Your emuMMC is separate. It is a copy of the firmware on the switch. All your saves are stored here. This keeps your SysNAND from being tainted with homebrew or NSPS. EmuMMC is all on the SD card.
The NAND of your Switch is its operating system (FW). When you make an EmuMMC you make a copy of this and put it on your SD Card.
To be safe, you should backup ALL your save games that are important to you first, then copy it off the card. To clone SD cards, I use this:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
This should clone the ENTIRE card, EmuMMC and normal files. I STILL advise you to
(1) Back up your saves with Checkpoint or JKSV
(2) Use Win32 to backup your card to an image
(3) Copy the "files" part, that has all your installs, homebrew to your PC
WIPE the entire card, delete all the data, kill all the partitions. Then start fresh. Have Hekate make the partitions and create a fresh EmuMMC.
From there, install whatever you know for SURE would be the best way to test your Joycon issue.
If this works, time to install all the stuff back. If not, you should be able to restore the SD card from the image.
My logic with a spare SD card...any card around 64GB is if you test it with this and it works. It can save you a lot of head ache and heart ache.
Debian ISO images are hybrid images that are already prepared for USB booting and can be copied directly.
Sometimes tools like etcher don't realize this, and attempt to convert the ISO for USB booting. This can cause issues.
The Debian install manual used to recommend using win32diskimager as recently as Debian 9. You could try that, or I've also heard that Rufus has a dd mode that does not mangle Debian images.
Or if you have a Linux computer to use for copying the ISO file, just use "cp debian.iso /dev/sdx" where sdx is the USB drive.
Grab an iso for a linux distro, any will work. I use mint.
https://www.linuxmint.com/download.php
Grab imaging program.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
Use the disk imager to make a live boot on a USB drive, using the ISO you downloaded. Plug the USB in and go into your BIOS, manually boot from the USB.
It will load the linux system instead of booting windows. Select 'Live' from the menu and once the OS loads run your speed tests.
Sure!
Sure! Download the image in the link and use either win32diskimager (windows) or DD (Linux/MacOS) to burn the image to a USB drive, once that's complete, you should be able to reboot to the USB drive which will automatically boot into a RetroArch console.
That should be all you need to get going!
Use Win32DiskImager to find out what's taking up so much space. If you're not the one using all this space, but you're SSD is being filled up anyway, I would try doing a Windows reset. My father had an issue on his computer where Windows continuously generated error logs that consumed dozens of gigabytes of space. After resetting his PC and deleting all of the logs, it freed up a lot of room.
But yea, I have personally created folders on my hard drive that mimic the ones I have in my Users folder to save space on my C: drive. I just make sure I change the shortcuts to the new ones you see when you open "This PC" as well as any download locations for programs like Chrome.
As a first step, use something like win32 disk imager to make a backup of the SD card. That way you can mess around with the SD card without worrying about using the data.
Use this program to backup the card: https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
Once you have the disk image; remember you can compress it to save space. The above program takes an image of the entire care including unused space.
I chose kali because of the tools that it comes with for the purpose of the field that I am going into. Can ubuntu still do a lot of the same things regarding the tools? win32 website --> its the same thing as etcher or something similar.
1 USE Win32DiskImager to format the image
2 Copy Hidden AND System files, ALL of them from the memory card
3 Check the sd2vita working or not, because THEY are CHEAP and may not working, and they can damage the sd card if you just force the card into it too much.
Which image did you flash? Wrong image and you get no video and no LED activity. Try flashing this image with Win32DiskImager.
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/releases/download/4.5.1/retropie-4.5.1-rpi1_zero.img.gz
You can fix this quite easily by using this tool instead - https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
Rufus uses it as a ISO instead of a disk image. This creates a little issue I’ve noticed. Let me know if it worked!
> Okay, just confirming I am following along, I should use a program like https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/ to create an image of my card onto my computer
Yes, this should be fine. Then you should work on that image to recover files instead of directly on the card.
> then format the card in the file explorer back to exFAT, correct?
You should never format the card, write anything to the card unless you're sure you recovered the data you need. That way, in case you decide to use a data recovery company services you won't make it harder or impossible to recover data.
At this point, i'm not sure if there's more i can advise here. If R-Studio doesn't show anything useful after scan, or in "extra found files" it doesn't sound good. Judging by what you had there it should still find lots of music files, even corrupted ones, and even if card was formatted again. It's hard to say without analyzing the dump and you didn't upload at least those first 128MB of such dump, but by what you're describing it seems that it was either encrypted and maybe re-formatted back to exFAT, or it was somehow wiped clean along with factory reset of the phone. First case won't be recoverable and can be somewhat verified by checking dump content with hex editor. Second might be recoverable if you're willing to sacrifice the card by bypassing controller and getting data out of memory chip inside and reconstructing it. This is something you can't do without a proper training and equipment, it's above my level as well (except for theory). This method however often allows you get much more deleted data than anything else.
Okay, just confirming I am following along, I should use a program like https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/ to create an image of my card onto my computer and then format the card in the file explorer back to exFAT, correct? Then rescan the drive.
with a recent libreelec you can make a backup (of the /storage/.kodi/ directory). Used it to move from a mulitboot implementation towards libreelec only implementation or recently with a sd card that generated errors when trying to clone it but backup still worked. simply make a backup and restore it on a vanilla libreelec. then you have all your settings and add-ons back again.
also I make complete sd card images with https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/files/latest/download which simply copies the whole sd card - regradless of amount of partitions or whether or not windows can actually read them.
before did the same when I still had multiboot setup also running raspbian with its build-in sd card copier. you might be able to do the same with the dd command.
so I now regularely (as in once I actually make a change adding or removing addons or changing the config) make a backup and a sd card disk image.
Hey guys, I recently won a raspberry pi 3b+ and I want to put it to use. I'm trying to install RasPwn on it, but i'm struggling.
I tried using Linux and Windows as the host to image the SD card, but both just have it so that the Pi shows the rainbow picture, but doesn't boot into anything. I can see that the SD card LED (the yellow one next to the power LED) is not reading the SD card. At first I thought that the card reader is broken, however when I put the SD card from my other Pi into it, it works.
I was perhaps thinking that the SD card is DOA but it works fine in the PC.
The Linux command I used to image the SD card was dd if=RasPwn.img of=/dev/sdb bs=512k (I checked that the SD card was /dev/sdb). The Windows tool that I used to image the SD card was Win32DiskImager. But both give the same result.
Any ideas what I should do?
looks like rufus didn't create the bootable USB correctly. Download the *.img file from the opnsense.org site. Make sure you pick your needed image (nano, VGA, Serial).
Download Win32DiskImager and use this tool to write the img file to the USB drive.
As for your USB drive, you may need to start over. Open cmd and use diskpart:
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt -------- ------------- ------- ------- --- --- Disk 0 Online 419 GB 0 B Disk 1 Online 698 GB 0 B * Disk 2 Online 476 GB 1024 KB * Disk 3 Online 3824 MB 0 B
DISKPART> select disk 3
Disk 3 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> clean
DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk.
DISKPART>
make sure you select your USB drive, in my case, it was disk 3, but use list disk to find your USB disk. The empty drive will show up in Win32DiskImager, and you then write the img to it.
does the stick work on another comp? and do you see it reading the drive at all? if i had a issue with a boot disk id try a different image writer. on windows I used https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/ IIR or if you used that try another.
Lakka LE9.2 Test Build for Raspberry Pi 4
- Download Lakka-RPi4.arm-2.9-devel-20190726110923-43f43a9.img.gz
- Extract the .img file using winzip, winrar, 7zip, etc..
- Write the .img file to a micro sd card using Win32DiskImager or Etcher.
- Insert the micro sd card into your Pi 4 and power it on.
For Windows the instructions say to use win32diskimager and gives the following hint:
>win32diskimager will apparently only list input files named *.img by default, while the Debian images are named *.iso. Change the filter to *.* if you use this tool.
Does the ISO contain a bootable OS ?
Looks like you might need software to write a raw ISO to a hard drive. I know win32 Disk imagers can handle this with USB but haven't tried it with a HDD. Can you boot the OS from USB port though just to test it ?
I was about to post links to image editing programs..
the one I find to be the best to use and most reliable is Win32DiskImager
https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/files/Archive/
it's small, easy to use, just find your image , select the drive and hit write
to make an image just select the drive, create a file and hit read.
it seems like it only gives you the option to make an img file but I believe if you make your flle with the extension iso, it will make an ISO.
Grab recalbox...extract the xz file with WinRAR so you are left with an img file. Now grab and install Win32DiskImager: https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/ Now use that to write the IMG file to the SD card. Then try to boot. If that fails then you definitely have hardware failure somewhere.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
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If you do it the correct order, it will copy the entire flash drive to an image file that can be moved to another flash drive. It's like an iso of a CD..making a copy of the CD in the digital format.
before proceeding towards data recovery, create a image backup of your MicroSD card using https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
TestDisk - https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download
PhotoRec - https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
Yes you can. Booting from a live USB means that the USB is essentially acting as your HDD so nothing is touched. You can mount your machine's HDD and access all its files if you wish but it's not necessary or required - All you're doing is telling the BIOS to look for an operating system to load on the USB first. If it doesn't find one, it will then look on the other drives it can see until it finds a bootable OS.
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The steps simplified:
1 - obtain your Linux OS of choice (recommendation for sourcing one https://distrowatch.com/)
2 - Flash a USB stick with the distro you downloaded. You say you're on windows, so I recommend Win32 Disk Imager
3 - Turn your machine off and put USB stick in. Reboot and get into your BIOS and change the boot priority so that the USB is searched first. Exit out and then a splash screen should load where you can choose to load a 'live system' or something similar.
4 - You can use the system all you like*
5 - ?
6 - Profit
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* Remember that changes you make won't stay because it's running completely off RAM, so any files you create must be saved elsewhere (i.e your main HDD or another USB) or they'll be lost when the machine turns off. There is an option in some live disk creation tools where you can set aside a partition on the USB for permanent storage but Win32 DI doesn't have this as far as I'm aware. Dedicated linux live USB tools will probably have that option but it's not necessary (nor 1337 h4xx0r enough to be considered a true hacker)
> Not sure on the best program for creating an image of your card on Windows.
Not the best but the most reliablly free one that works if all you need is to image a straightforward volume.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
Or... there’s always various ports of dd for Windows
https://aeroquartet.com/movierepair/dd%20for%20windows.en.html
I forgot to ask if you were getting the little thermometer icon in the top right of the screen during gameplay. That'd be an immediate indicator of an overheating concern. The only time my Pi overheated during gameplay (not overclocked, no fan just heatsinks) was playing PS1 games. Caused some slowdown, too, though no crashing. Leaving your Pi open to the passive environment can help but moving a bit of air over the hotspots (via a fan) can definitely be a benefit.
The config file is a simple TXT file. You can copy it to your PC, at least that's what I did, so if you do mess anything up you can copy the original file back and start back with a working setup. Alternately, you could backup your entire SD card with Win32DiskImager. It takes longer, of course, but the result is you'll have the exact same setup ready to go if, say, you have to wipe your card and start fresh.
Definitely buy an official raspberry pi power supply - they make a difference.
It sounds like you have got your SD card full of good stuff so I would highly recommend backing it up using something like Win32DiskImager - SD cards don't last forever
First of all, if they are old RAMs there is a chance that they are not compatible with your PC. Even if they are, I would not take the risk. If you have a spare old computer use that. If you really have to test them and your data is safe, then you could insert them in your current PC and run a software called MEMTEST 86+ at the following link https://www.memtest86.com/download.htm Download the iso image file and "burn" it to a CD or USB drive. A good program for writing image files to USB is Win32 Disk Imager (https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/)
FYI some new computers have integrated diagnostic utilities in the UEFI BIOS
I've seen this come up but don't know a ready-fix solution for it. You could use something like 7zip to extract all the ROMs from that image then install them by hand onto your Pi. It's obviously not an easy solution but it's what I can think of offhand. I think I ran into something similar ages ago with a 32gb image that wouldn't quite fit. Wound up sticking it on a 64gb card and it was fine. You could try reformatting it first with Win32DiskImager or SD Memory Card Formatter ( https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/ or https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/ ) to change the entire card to FAT32 then burn the image with Etcher. I think this worked for me in the past, it's been a while since I had to do this.
I had the same issue the other day, as others have said, if you're using Linux to make the USB stick use DD to write the iso to the stick or if you're on Windows use something like Win32DiskImager https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
You can do it on a running rpi but the filesystem may need repair the first time you boot to the new card. For Rpi, Linux, or OSX, you can just use:
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=1M
This will do a direct copy. If you are using your Mac or PC with plenty of storage, you can write it to a local file which reduces the chance of mistakes.
On Windows, you can download https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/ to copy disks.
WARNING: the dd command had absolutely no protections to prevent overwriting disks. If you specify the wrong device, you can literally wipe out your whole OS in one command. Double and triple check your if= and of= parameters to make sure they are correct.
Weird request but fairly simple:
On Windows: use Win32 Disk Imager
On Linux: get the device address (with
sudo fdisk -l) of your SD card (here: /dev/sdb) then use theddcommand:
$ sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=~/SDCardBackup.img
- On macOS: same as Linux but use
diskutil listto get the hardware address
> etcher if you want a GUI tool
Or Win32 Disk Imager if you want a simple, lightweight utility.
(Don't get me wrong, etcher is a decent program with a nice aesthetic, but the framework it's written on adds a lot of unnecessary bloat.)
> What's that Qt-based program called?
Win32 Disk Imager. Works the same way, select the ISO file, it has probably autoselected the right drive for you, press write. I see no reason to use a web stack to do this easy task. And of course, if you use OS X or Linux you already have dd installed.
I don't doubt that Etcher works, that's not the point. The point is, why use Electron for what should be a dead simple program with a file select control, drive select control, and a couple of buttons? Is Javascript the best language for writing ISO files to devices? Do you need to style an ISO program with CSS?
There may be some detectable scrap of linux on the ssd still. Worth checking into to see if you can get it cleared, but overall not a big deal since Windows is still working.
Moving on from that, sounds like there's just an issue with the boot disk. I've never really used unetbootin, I always just use a combination of SD Card Formatter to totally blank the card/usb drive, and Win32DiskImager to write bootable images. Haven't really had any problems with it.
As for why it's freezing, I couldn't really tell ya without getting my hands on it.
Oh man, where do I start... Did you use wintousb on the flashdrive to run windows off of it? If so you will need to use another computer and get MiniTool Partition Wizard (https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html) and delete all partitions off the flashdrive. Create a Fat32 Partition that fills the entire USB, then use a program like Win32 Disk Imager (https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/) to write a Windows 10 ISO to the flashdrive. (https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows10) After you have the flash drive with windows 10 on it, go back to minitool partition wizard and delete all the partitions off of your SSD (ALL DATA ON THE DRIVE WILL BE GONE) then create a NTFS partition. It will ask you to restart the computer, and you should do so. Then boot up the USB and install Windows 10 onto the SSD.
> I'm using the SD formatter
No, that shouldn't matter. Etcher should write over everything from the first sector on.
Have you tried win32disimager?
I think you can run the full DOS installer disks under QEMU and save it to a disk image pretty easily. I would think it would be pretty simple to then write that image to a CF card.
Switching floppies under QEMU is pretty easy, you just have to pop out into the 'monitor' and use the change command to switch the disk for the floppy device and then pop back into the emulation proper (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/QEMU/Monitor#Devices)
You can find MS-DOS install disks here (6.22 given as example): https://winworldpc.com/product/ms-dos/622 Just make sure you get the regular install (not upgrade), the 3.5/1.44mb variant, and don't get a localized version unless you want it.
Win32 Disk Imager should suffice to get the contents onto a CF, albeit some touch up may be required later depending on how you want the partition. If you want to fill the whole space then make sure when you create the disk image for qemu that it's exactly as big as the drive (use size in bytes if you can to avoid weirdness).
Try re-downloading the .ISO file from https://www.kali.org/downloads/ and then re-burning the image file to the designated USB. If you are on windows I recommend using Win32DiskImager (https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/).
This helped me out a lot when starting out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiR14tSfc-U&list=PLPK2l9Knytg67nkvpnnl81ossAHfOgmqU
The 4th vid should help.
put your SD card in your pc (if it has an SD card reader use that, otherwise get a usb SD card reader)
open win32diskimager (you can download it here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/)
download your OS image, I reccomend raspbian (you can download it here: https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/ take the one ending in 'desktop')
write you OS image file to your SD card using win32diskimager
More details are difficult to type out, but you should find them in the above mentioned vid.
This sub tries it's best to help but knowledge depends on experience a lot, so if you're asking help for something specific, google/dedicated fora might be a better option then posting here.
Try downloading the Windows 10 .iso from here and write it to the USB stick using win32 disk imager.
If that doesn't work check if USB emulation is enabled, and enable it if it's disabled (this might work, but I don't use gigabyte so I don't know).
Do you get the error on before or after install?
It's turkish page for helping hackintoshers, you should download/install their sierra image before trying that guide because it is based on their sierra image.
https://osxinfo.net/konu/macos-sierra-10-12-5-guencel-kurulum-imaji.810/
> "Masaüstü için 10.12.5:"
PS: Write with Win32Diskimager
https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
Hit Read instead of Write and it'll make an image to your downloads folder. Just put ".img" at the end of the file you created and it'll turn it into an image that can be written to other sd cards.
Easiest method? Use Win32 Disk Imager to create a 1:1 image of the master SD card. Write the image to the new SD card.
This way, you're not just transferring roms manually, you grab the scraper data (box art, gamelist.xml), configurations (wifi, retroarch) and so on.
Unfortunately he's not correct for most cases. You can take an .iso and write it to a drive and it almost always works just fine. I keep all my install .isos and just write to USB drive when I need them.
On a windows machine this works great: https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
If you get your Win7 iso here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows7 and use that win32diskimager you will have a working USB installer. That's the method I use for making most all of my USB installers for Windows 7,8,10 and various versions of linux since I store the .isos on my Windows game machine.
If you have a working ubuntu machine the startup disc creator tool will write .isos to USB drives and works almost as well as the Windows app I linked to (has far fewer options).
What are you using to image the SD card?
Also are you sure you used the PI 3 image?
It sounds like you are using an older image not supported by the PI 3.
But without more info I can give further advice.
If I were you I would use Window Disk Imager to write to the disk
Have you tried changing the boot settings in BIOS? You have to set the usb drive as first boot device, and you may have to change between UEFI and Legacy boot.
Did you burn the img to the usb drive properly? If not Try this software for burning the IMG to the USB drive.
Honestly if you arent able to boot from USB/CD, or get into bios at all a different distro probably wont work.