I don't know why people have trouble with the default rasbion imager if using
windows 10. If using windows 7 etcher is a good choice. If using windows 10
though here are my steps from a fresh windows 10 machine. (I just reinstalled
my machine so I thought it would be interesting to do from a clean windows 10
machine. I did the following steps using NVDA, Jaws, and Narrator and all work.
I went to:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/software/
and downloaded imager 1.5 for windows. You just click on the link and it
downloads.
I had to go to settings and tell windows 10 to let me run a non-store app.
windows key + I to go to settings
tab once select app and hit enter
tab twice
use the combo box to select what you want for application installation. I
chose to have it let me but warn me.
close settings
Go to downloads and pick imager 1.5 and run it.
say yes to the dialog to run by administrator.
wait till the install finishes
press finish and rasbion imager runs by default.
If you run it later you always have to tell it to allow to run by administrator.
Now the accessibility works on the rasbion imager but it is strange. First
thing is first
You can tab and shift tab from SD card to Rasbion image. I always set the SD
card first.
Tab to and select the SD card. Choose it by pressing space bar
A rather crappy file dialog will pop up. If nothing shows up pop your SD card
out of the computer and put it back. It will show up then and you can select
it by pressing space.
Once you have selected the SD card you will be back in the dialog with SD card
selected and OS not selected. Tab to the OS choice.
press space bar
screen readers either do not say anything or say something like group. It
depends on your verbosity. You can arrow up and down and jaws will speak the
OS.
Once you find the one you want press space and you will be back in the dialog
with SD and OS.
Now that both SD and OS are selected there will be a write option. Tab to the
write option and press space to select it.
A yes no dialog will pop up.
tab and shift tab and press space on yes or no depending on what you want. Yes
to write no to go back to the other dialog.
If you press space on yes it will start writing and leave you on a cancel
dialog.
The only thing this has not worked on is a bad 128 GB card I have bouncing
around. Everything else it has worked perfectly on windows 10. If your on
something older I suggest etcher.
-----Original Message-----
From: raspberry-vi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <raspberry-vi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On
Behalf Of Frank Davies (Redacted sender "frank_3d" for DMARC)
Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2021 4:37 PM
To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [raspberry-vi] Re: SD Flash utility for Windows that actually works
Have you tried a utility called Rufus?
It has worked well for me in the past on Win10 although I've never tried it on
anything larger than 16GB.
On Jan 31, 2021, at 11:25, Andrew Hart <ahart42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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