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Raspberrypi B4 troubleshooting

Markoon96 25 days ago

Need help troubleshooting my raspberrypi B4 and flashing micro SD card with Operating software on an Azus windows 10 desktop

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BigG 24 days ago

This will also help you: https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-imager-imaging-utility/
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kmikemoo 24 days ago in reply to BigG

I even use the Raspberry Pi Imaging Utility to load other images on SD cards. I think it's awesome.
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Markoon96 23 days ago in reply to kmikemoo

Haven't had much luck with the documentation from the raspberrypi site and neither with the os downloads; they don't download as zip folder to extract the files and when I do download them they have a different file format. Even installed the Linux raspi imager. Maybe it's just my outdated windows pc
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beacon_dave 23 days ago in reply to Markoon96

Markoon96 said:
they don't download as zip folder to extract the files and when I do download them they have a different file format.

Later Raspberry Pi OS versions were compressed with XZ format and not Zip.

Markoon96 said:
Maybe it's just my outdated windows pc

If you are downloading manually, then you will likely need a utility tool like 7-Zip to uncompress them after downloading.
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colporteur 23 days ago in reply to beacon_dave

BD, I seem to recall Pi Imager takes care of the compression by not burdening the user or am I thinking of another imager.
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colporteur 23 days ago in reply to beacon_dave

BD, I seem to recall Pi Imager takes care of the compression by not burdening the user or am I thinking of another imager.
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beacon_dave 23 days ago in reply to colporteur

Yes, I think you are correct.

If you follow the official documentation, then they recommend Pi Imager these days, so shouldn't have these issues.
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