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Balena etcher backup sd card12/20/2023 ![]() ![]() I hope you can understand that if someone don’t understand help them if u understand cuz i can not explain any further. If you dont understand just look up how to download iso to rufus on youtube, do it, then deleate what you downloaded to your usb and that should fix it. ![]() This will reset the USB and download the iso files which then you can go to the usb and deleate the files you downloaded making your USB drives usable again. Step four: select ur usb and iso in rufus What u do is u download any iso file which i downloaded pop os iso and i downlaoded rufus again I hope your USBs get fixed from this terrible app. I did a lot of research and have not found a solution to fixing both my USBs. Although true it simple and easy to use it will inevitably break your USB making it not worth your time and money. The reason I used Balena was that it looked simple and easy to use. I recommend using Rufus as that works for me and DOES NOT break my USBs stick as I have used both Balena Etcher and Rufus. Can anyone help me out? If not I’ll just trash the hell out of this software all over my XDA/reddit and personal forums so that hopefully people will stop asking me to fix something that, had I been the developer, I would have fixed A LONG TIME AGO.ĭo not use Balena Etcher it broke two of my USBs sticks. All 3 provided the above error in event viewer. Error code: tried my PC, running WIN10 with 16GB RAM and a couple SSDs and my 2 laptops. I keep getting the message along the liens of “Cluster Size too small” …here’s a couple lines from my Event Viewer:Ĭannot zero sectors on disk \?\PhysicalDrive2. I’ve always been able to work around diskpart in WIN10 to success but this SANDISK 32GB is not having it. And guess what? All 4 times were instances where the person used Etcher, as instructed, to flash System 76’s POS/POP OS and after successful installation of the OS, as I’m told, the drive is unusable, unable to be cleaned in diskpart, unable to be formated, etc. I have a couple friends who play with Linux distros in dev and this is the 4th time I’ve been asked to repair a USB. Download the PiShrink script, and make it executable.Thanks to System 76 for barely compiling an installation guide, not to mention any useful FAQs or troubleshooting. If you do not have Linux installed, you can install the latest version of Ubuntu or Linux Mint in a virtual machine, and run this script there. Unfortunately, this tool is only available on Linux. This also makes copying the image back onto the SD card much faster. ![]() To work around this limitation, we will use PiShrink, a script that automatically shrinks a Pi image that will then automatically resize to the max size of the SD card on boot. This is fine if you only have one or two such images, but any more than that (especially if you use an SSD) will cause you to run out of space. For example, cloning an SD card with a capacity of 32GB will create an image file of 32 GB, even if only 5 GB is actually in use on the card. ![]() How to Shrink the Cloned Raspberry Pi Image (Linux-only)Īs mentioned at the starting of the article, these methods create an image file that is equal to the total capacity of the SD card. You can then remove the card from your Mac, and insert it back in the Raspberry Pi. Once the write is complete, you will see a confirmation from dd. Insert the micro SD card that you want to clone in your PC using a USB or built-in card reader. Windows Instructions Backup Raspberry Pi SD Cardġ. There is a method to shrink the image size, but it works only on Linux, and we will be explaining it later in the tutorial. For example, if you have a 16 GB SD card, the resulting image file will also be 16 GB, no matter how much space your installation is actually using. Note: This method will create an image file exactly the size of the SD card’s total capacity. We will explain how to do it on Windows, Linux, and finally macOS. So today, we will learn how to clone or backup the Raspberry Pi micro SD card to an image file, and restore the image after we are done experimenting. In both the above scenarios, it is helpful to have an exact, bit-by-bit identical backup of your working Raspberry Pi installation. Problem is, you only have one micro SD card, and already have a working installation on it that you do not want to lose. Another common scenario is let’s say, you just got to know about a cool new Raspberry Pi-based project or Linux distro, and you are dying to try it out. ![]()
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