[arm-allstar] can't create SD card image

[Eric Vincent]

Good news David!

I think it’s a question of formatting and/ or a mismatch between Linux and Windows.

Eric

> Le 5 oct. 2022 à 14:07, Don Sayler via ARM-allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> a écrit :
> 
> Eric, thanks! That worked.
> 
> I guess the cards weren't counterfeit after all, they were restored to the
> poper size. I have no idea why they were messed up.
> 
> Don
> 
>> On Tue, Oct 4, 2022 at 4:46 PM "Eric Vincent via ARM-allstar" <
>> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>> 
>> David,
>> 
>> I had similar problems and I followed the instructions on this site
>> <
>> https://fossbytes.com/how-to-repair-corrupted-pen-drive-or-sd-card/#:~:text=Right%2Dclick%20on%20CMD%20and,It%20works%20in%20most%20cases
>> .>
>> and after a couple hours of trial and error, I have saved 2 SD cards.
>> Try it!
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Eric
>> 
>> 
>> Le mar. 4 oct. 2022 à 04:32, "David McGough via ARM-allstar" <
>> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> a écrit :
>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi Don,
>>> 
>>> I'm glad you found the issue.  Out of curiosity, where did you get the
>> bad
>>> cards?
>>> 
>>> 73, David K4FXC
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Mon, 3 Oct 2022, "Don Sayler via ARM-allstar" wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Well, this was a head-scratcher. Turns out I had *2* counterfeit SD
>>> cards.
>>>> Not 16gb, just 99mb. They sure look like genuine Sandisk Ultra! Ugh.
>> Why
>>> do
>>>> people do that.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 8:58 AM Don Sayler <don.sayler at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm trying to create a new SD card image from the latest RPi zip
>> file.
>>> I
>>>>> extract the zip and get the IMG file. I use Win32 Disk Imager to
>> write
>>> the
>>>>> image to a micro SD card. No errors are shown, and Win32 Disk Imager
>>> shows
>>>>> 'write complete'. And Win32 Disk Imager shows me only the 'F' drive,
>>> which
>>>>> is also what File Explorer and Disk Manager show.
>>>>> 
>>>>> But, there is nothing on the SD card. The write protect tab on the
>>> adapter
>>>>> is not set. This is a 16 MB card. I even tried running Win32 Disk
>>> Imager as
>>>>> Administrator. I tried this on 2 different SD cards. Any ideas?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>> Don
>>>>> 
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