I'm Andrew Hart. I've recently bought a Raspberry Pi 4b 4G kit and am
having some difficulties getting it up and running. I managed to
assemble it, putting on the heat sinks, hooking up the fan and
installing it in the case that came in the kit. The kit came with a
Sandidsk 32GB SD card preloaded with Noobs which was fine and the Pi
actually started with the card before I reflashed it.
Windows could see a partition on the card and, thanks to Seeing AI, I
could tell the Pi would start and display a menu asking for the OS to be
selected on the tv. I didn't know how to progress past this screen, but
from googling around I understood that I would be able to get up and
going by flashing a Raspberry OS image directly to the card and by
adding an empty ssh file to the FAT32 boot partition, I would be able to
gain access via ssh. Also, the latest release notes for Raspberry OS
indicate that Orca could be installed and started in one go by pressing
alt+ctrl+space on an attached keyboard.
So, I downloaded the latest Raspberry OS image and, following the advice
on raspberryvi.org, downloaded Winflash and used it to flash the image
to the SD card.
After much mucking around, it seems apparent that Winflash does not work
correctly.
I've tried flashing on a Windows 10 Pro machine using the machines own
SD card reader as well as a USB micro sd card reader that came in the
kit, and on an ancient Windows 7 Pro machine I have as well. On both
machines, I get exactly the same result.
Two partitions are created, a 256 MB raw partition and a 29GB partition
which Windows is unable to see. Winflash correctly sees that the
partitions contain fat32 and linux filesystems respectively if I try to
overwrite the card, but Windows only sees a raw partition. I can also
see the two partitions
using diskpart and the first shows a format of raw while the second is
not recognised by Windows.
Also, the Pi does not boot with this card. The HDMI tv I have connected
to it displays "no signal" the whole time. So, it seems that Winflash is
not capable of flashing the image correctly to the card.
Does anyone know what's going on here or can someone tell me what I can
use to flash the card in order to obtain a correctly installed OS?
Thanks heaps,
Andrew.
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