2E0SEI wrote: ↑Tue Oct 05, 2021 3:12 pm
Hi
No matter what I do try I cannot write an image to my sdcard?
I have used 4 sdcards, not all the same make new and old. 16gb 32gb
What type of error message do you receive? (Note: since you mention Win32 Disk Imager, I'll presume a Windows system -- Windows can not process Linux ext3/ext4 file systems, so after writing an image all you'll find is a small FAT32 boot partition used by the R-Pi to load model specific configuration files before transferring control to the ext4 file system partition)
Though you have not stated the brands. SanDisk seems the most reliable for me (Samsung is highly rated, but I've never seen one in local stores).
My second preference would be Lexar (though my only real experience with them is in CF format cards used by my digital cameras).
PNY, Transcend (I believe), and Kingston don't make chips. They just label units bought from foundries on lowest-bidder basis. As a result, two cards with the same label (size, class) could be vastly different internally.
Any other company -- especially eBay and similar sellers -- aren't fit to trust. They may have bought cheap cards and had them relabeled with a "quality" name. They have been known to sell cards labeled for a larger capacity than really inside the card (having programmed the card to report a high capacity -- only to fail when one reaches the actual physical Flash memory size)..
I have used win32 imager rufus balenaEtcher 1.5.122.
I can format all cards no errors, I card write to cards write other images just not pi-star.
In some forums, Win32 Disk Imager has been deprecated (though it may be useful for making an image /from/ a card -- though my one attempt to do that to make copies of a configured system failed... the capture worked, but the copy failed due to the card internals being slightly different and the available blocks on the destination was smaller than the blocks in the image). Don't know "rufus".
Balena Etcher has been pretty reliable here. It can open multiple formats and properly extract the image from them (for ZIP files, et al.). Since the Pi-Star images are packaged as ZIP files, just let Etcher process the ZIP file -- do not extract the contents and then try to burn the extract.
While it shouldn't be needed (since Etcher and other "image copy" utilities don't use the file system that is on the card) but try doing a full format/verify using the SD Association card formatter
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter/ (if it allows, [X] the CHS adjustment box -- some cards don't allow that option).