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Questions tagged [win32diskimager]

For questions about the usage of Win32DiskImager, which is a free program for flashing raw operating system images to removable devices.

This is the homepage for the program, where it can also be downloaded from.

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win32diskimager not enough space

I have a 8gb sd card with raspian image. Also I had expanded filesystem using sudo raspi-config. After that I had crated image using win32diskimager. Image size is around 8,068,792,320 bytes . However when I try to burn same image back to same sd…
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How to edit Raspberry Pi files from SD card on Windows machine?

I am distributing multiple Raspberry Pi OS images, all images are almost identical, the only difference is that there is one file /usr/MyFolder/MyFile.txt which content is different for different images. So far the steps I take for each image are…
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Win32DiskImager - Error 121: The semaphore timeout period has expired

I'm not able to write on my SD card with Win32DiskImager. I throws the error: An error occurred when attempting to write data to handle. Error 121 The semaphore timeout period has expired
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boot failure after flashing RPI-4 raspbian buster on older RPI-3 image sdcards

Last week I flashed Raspbian Buster image to a very old SanDisk 8gb card (slow) using win32diskimager on windows 10, it worked just fine on my new RPI4B-1GB board - and its still functional ... Steps followed : 1) format SD card on windows as a…
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Is it possible that an SD is broken and I can not make an image out of it?

I'm trying to make a system image for a backup of my rpi3 microSD, but when I try to restore it do not works. First method I've tried is dd on Linux with this well known commands: sudo dd bs=4M if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=raspbian.img and sudo dd bs=4M…
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How to clone SD card from 16G to 16G if sizes slightly differeent?

I have 16G source SD card with 14.51G of actual size and I need to duplicate it to another 16G SD card with actual size 14.41G. I have found another question: Cloning SD card to different size SD card. This question has been answered but all answers…
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Writing Ubuntu server image "Verification Failed"

I have tried googling for this to see if people have similar issues but found nothing. I recently obtained a Raspberry Pi 4 (2gb), installed raspbian lite earlier today which all worked just fine, but I was really interested in setting up a 64-bit…
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Retrieve data from several Raspberry Pi disk images

I have about 40 Raspberry Pi SD-Card backups, dating back several years, with different projects, some of which I barely remember. As they are clogging up my harddrive (400+ GB), I would like to reduce them to a minimum. The files were mostly…
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webos image not working on raspberry pi 3

on: http://build.webos-ports.org/webosose/raspberrypi3/ There are several .rpi-sdimg files for raspberry pi 3. I have flashed a couple of them on to a SD card but when I power them up in my raspberry pi 3 the only thing I see is the multicolored…
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Ethernet Indicator led on pi 3B+ not glowing

I am a newbie to Raspberry Pi and recently bought Raspberry pi 3 B+. I first downloaded and burn the minibian on sd card as some course suggested minibian. But whenever I connect pi with power, only pwr led glows(doesn't blink) and every other…
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Win32DiskImager working with compressed files

Win32DiskImager is a cool tool on Windows except: we have to manually extract the ZIP file and then flash it, and then delete the ZIP it doesn't seem to work in command-line Is there a way to make it work with compressed files?…
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Industrial Reliability of Raspberry Pi for long-term use?

I need to automate my plant room, having a few water tanks and pumps. Will RPi 3 Model B be reliable for this purpose? It will need to be 24/7 monitoring. Any experiences? Any mathematical formulas to find the reliability of Pi?
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Win32diskImager "Not enough space on disk Size: 62652416 sectors. Available: 62333952"

I've been careful to buy the same Samsung 32GB SD cards for all my Rpi3 systems to avoid the dreaded Win32diskImager size error. All of the Rpi images are stored safely in the NAS as .img files. When it is time for a new one, I go back to the Orders…
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How to create small SD Card Images?

The builtin SD Card Copier tool can create copies smaller than the system sd card, so it can be used for cloning the system into smaller cards. Is there a similar tool (running on any os) for creating small image files from an rpi system sd card? As…
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Are there Restore Points alternatives on Raspberry Pi?

I have the following problem - we are distributing Raspberry Pi devices with our some software installed into it to our clients. Occasionally we need to update the current state of their OS (for example to install additional packages that are needed…
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