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If I click "storage" while using the Raspberry Pi Imager, I only get a blank Window blank window

Selecting the OS works fine. The sd card is connected to my pc and recognized

Device         Boot  Start       End   Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/mmcblk0p1        8192    532479    524288   256M  c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/mmcblk0p2      532480 249737215 249204736 118.8G 83 Linux

Im am using Arch Linux and install the rpi-imager from AUR. There are two packages and I tried both

aur/rpi-imager 1.7.5-1 [+72 ~2.31] [Installed: 1.7.4.1-1]
    Raspberry Pi Imaging Utility
aur/rpi-imager-bin 1.7.5-1 [+16 ~0.44]
    Raspberry Pi Imaging Utility
papanito
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It seems like a recent update to the util-linux package on Arch (that includes lsblk) makes it so that some SD cards are no longer flagged as removable. This makes them not selectable from the UI.

There's already an issue created to address this case.

For now you can try to create the image via the CLI with the enable-writing-system-drives flag (which includes "non removable" devices) such as:

rpi-imager --cli --debug --enable-writing-system-drives [image file] [SD card device]
morditore
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The storage window on the Pi imager shows up as blank only when there is no SD card inserted into the SD Card slot on your laptop or desktop i.e. it shows as blank when it does not detect a card in the SD card slot

So step 1: Check if your SD card is inserted into your laptop's SD card slot Step 2: Check if it is inserted properly & being detected in File explorer

If both the above are done you will not see a blank window on clicking the storage button

Beginners might also mistakenly insert the SD card into the Pi device assuming that one can write to the SD card even while it is inserted into the Pi device. This is not the case

Hope this helps.

Mezjan Dallas
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I just had this problem on Ubuntu.

The only thing that worked for me was building the latest version of the Raspberry Pi imager from source

https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-imager

Full instructions here.

R.Meredith
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