![]() Start > type in "Create and format disk partitions" In this case, Windows Explorer only shows a 56 MB SD card, while the SD card is 16 GB. This screenshot is from another site, but it shows the problem. ![]() However, Windows Disk Management does recognize everything. Windows can only see the first partition, thus showing the card as 30/61 MB. Next to that, there was almost 1 GB unallocated. My SD Card had 2 partitions, the first one only being 61 MB, the second one was 26 GB. Windows has great difficulty reading a SD card after the raspberry Pi installed files on it. I'm answering this because this was one of the first results on Google and I had the same problem. Am I screwed and I need to get a new card? Am I doing something stupid? I'm seriously at an absolute loss at what to do, and any help is greatly appreciated. I then attempted to create a partition table, and it completes with no errors, but nothing is actually created. I could not interact with the space at all, as it said there was no partition table. As you can see, GParted only sees 32 MB device, instead of the two separate partitions which I was hoping to see. However, upon opening GParted and looking at the drive, I am greeted with what is shown below. So, I booted up Linux Mint on a Virtual Machine, and connected my card in hopes that using GParted I could format my card and start over. I figured this was because I was using a newer version of Retropie, and it somehow needed to be partitioned in a different way than older versions). Upon doing some research, I realized that when you flash a Raspberry Pi OS onto a microSD card, it creates two partitions, one of which windows can't recognize, and the other Linux can (this however is weird, as in previous times where I flashed an OS, Windows saw two separate devices. A normal format does not work, diskpart does not work, and using SD Formatter 4 does not work. ![]() ![]() I then tried some of the methods that I could find. Upon further inspection, I realized that Windows was seeing 32 MB of raw unallocated space. The only thing Windows was able to discover was an unknown device, saying that it must be formatted to be used. I then took it out, and plugged it back into my laptop. I then put the card into my Pi, and plugged it in. Upon arrival, I flashed the Retropie 4.1 image for the Pi Zero onto it. A couple of days ago I received a new 32 GB SD card from Sandisk.
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