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Total newby frustration with DiskImager

e14 Contributor

I first was having trouble, over several days, with verifying the checksum.  Then I realized that the instruction was not exactly correct.  The checksum is applied to the zip file not the image (img) file.

 

Now that I have a verified good copy of the zip file for the newest Wheezy Version (13-2-9) and the expanded img file, I inserted my SD card into an USB port. It was recognized as device H: 


So I started Win32DiskImager-V.07.exe, and when the very long, scary, no-action period ended, a text box appeared wanting to know what img file I wanted to install.  I successfully pointed to that.  Next to the img file name it wanted to know on what device I wanted to install.  I had no choice - it wanted to install on my backup drive, K:.  Would not give me any other choices but K:.  I tried repeating that again, same thing.

 

My question - What am I doing wrong now?  Was there supposed to be any other preparation to the SD card (a 4G version) like formatting? 

 

Any advice would be appreciated.

 

Chuck

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  • in reply to mcb1

    Actually, I got it to work!  Turns out that my Win7x64 system saw the card reader but did not see the card.  I took it out and firmly replaced it.  Bingo.  Took about 40m to write to the card (Wheezy) at about 0.8MB/s average.  But the Win32DiskManager did what it was supposed to.  I will try my RPi tomorrow.

     

    So people, maybe just wiggling your card in place will work for this image writing.  There is a warning that you should not insert or remove the card from the RPI unless the power is off.

     

    My solution was simple.

     

    Chuck

  • in reply to e14 Contributor

    Chuck

    Great it works.

     

    Seems there are a few isues with cards not connecting correctly.

     

    Can you please look towards the bottom and tag this as answered.

    I even saw that it was possible to mark your own post as answered ...

     

     

    Mark