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    • Substring
      Substring last edited by

      @tdelios as I said earlier (and I'm part of the team), .img should come for the next version, that is 4.1. Features are frozen for 4.0, we are just correcting the few remaining bugs before the next beta. Installing 4.0 is done by installing a simple architecture-less zip on a fat32 formatted SD, we won't change that in the current release 🙂

      I'm not sure if guiformat ereases the partition table or just partitions and formats a whole SD

      Now everyone switch to good mood on 🙂

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      • paradadf
        paradadf Staff @tdelios last edited by

        @tdelios ups, I mixed the answers posted here and there an user spoke about that, sorry.

        If your question was answered, please mark it as solved: Topic Tools -> Ask a question + Topic Tools -> Mark as Solved

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        • colera100dragoes
          colera100dragoes last edited by

          Hello everyone,

          I have the same error in my SD card Sandisk 32gb in raspberry pi3 model B.
          I try in another sd card Sandisk 4gb and work ok, but the memory is less and I like to put on 32gb.

          Any solution?

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          • Substring
            Substring @colera100dragoes last edited by

            @colera100dragoes You can use an USB key for external storage

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            • colera100dragoes
              colera100dragoes last edited by

              Good news.

              I managed to solve this error as follows.

              In a machine Windows XP SP3, used the SD formater 4 with the "full (overwrite) and Turning" on "activated and the FAT32 format.
              After the end of the process, I accessed the "diskmgmt.msc" windows to check the partitions, and the same was only one partition in FAT32.
              I copied the files back to the SD card and the system worked.

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              • hughesadam87
                hughesadam87 last edited by

                Just to update as of 1/18/17

                I've bought two recalbox kits from the suggested parts on the main page. I received this error each time.

                Not sure if it's the card, or that it's pre-installed with noobs, but the solution in both cases was to choose

                Format Size Adjustment = On

                in te scandisk utility. You can still use quick format, but please turn this option on and it should bypass the error.

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                • Nanolight
                  Nanolight last edited by

                  Hi,

                  I would like to add my two cents to this.

                  I bought a 64GB Samsung card and ran into countless freaking problems including the resize issue, as well as the wrong MBR/GPT errors. Using Win10 on my Pentuim NUC I couldn't format to FAT32 because Microsoft are j**ks (while I was working on it my NUC just decided to reboot and do Windows updates with out any warning, dropping my remote access session, god d**n Microsoft I swear!).

                  I couldn't get anything to work, no software would format the memory card into a usable format (I tried many useless packages, no doubt many of them work on WinXP or Win 7 maybe but not Win 10).

                  So the problem is clearly Windows and it's refusal to let me do what I want. So the way I got around all of this was to first download the OpenELEC img file and use Win32 disk imager (Run as Admin) to write that image to the memory card. This got the memory card in the right format I needed (probably due to all the messing around with it I had done). Afterwards I used MiniToolPartition Wizard Free to delete the FAT32 partition, then created a new PRIMARY (not Logical, very important!!!!) 15GB or so FAT32 partition. After that I right clicked the archive in Windows and used Winrar to extract to the card, then unmount and it worked.

                  There needs to be an img file, very very very needs to be one. I appreciate the effort the devs of recalbox go to for us in the community but making an img file will help make things as painless as possible.

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                  • Nanolight
                    Nanolight last edited by

                    Well... ignore my last post...

                    After the install scripts successfully run the Pi reboots and flashes white, then gray, then rainbow and repeats for ever...

                    Back to square one... sigh...

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                    • Tom
                      Tom last edited by

                      I tried all of the various solutions mentioned here (including camera formatting without success.

                      I was successful when using guiformat on a Windows 10 machine with the quick format option checked and the Allocation Unit Size set to 4096, not the default 32768.

                      Hope this helps.

                      Now my problem is after RecalBoxOS starts my monitor report the display timing is not supported....... This should not be so hard......

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                      • chill8ut
                        chill8ut last edited by

                        Works perfectly when formated with my NIKON 1 J1 camera (Sandisk 16Go Ultra)
                        Va comprendre Charles...

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                        • lookrecruits
                          lookrecruits @Tom last edited by

                          @Tom i kept getting the fat resize error when i used windows 10 to try to make a new raspberry pi raspbian installation on an 8 gig generic noobs SD card which came with the raspberry pi. I can confirm that windows 10 does something that causes it somehow. When other users here on the topic in this forum said a person with an installation of windows xp can install noobs with windows xp successfully and error free it got me thinking . To solve this problem i simply used ubuntu linux and it's gparted partition and format application to make 1 big partition and format it as a fat32 filesystem. Then i mounted the SD card reader / writer device partition (on mine it was /dev/sde1) and i made a dedicated directory to mount it to to send the copied files to that mounted directory and then i was done! It worked the very first time! A person might be able to do this on a live version of an ubuntu distribution and i think most distributions of linux can do this more or less easily. Anyone having the fat resize error i encourage using this method described in this post. 🙂

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                          • zmeta
                            zmeta last edited by

                            This is the solution that worked for me to resolve the "Error: Resizing Existing FAT Partition" message

                            1. Open Command prompt with administrative privileges
                            2. DISKPART
                            3. LIST DISK (You need this to find the Disk # of your USB Drive. On most machines, it will be "Disk 1”)
                            4. SELECT DISK 1
                            5. CLEAN
                            6. CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
                            7. SELECT PARTITION 1
                            8. ACTIVE
                            9. FORMAT FS=FAT32 QUICK
                            10. ASSIGN
                            11. EXIT
                            12. Unzip Recalbox.zip to the USB
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                            • netcat
                              netcat last edited by

                              ď„‘
                              zmeta Solution worked flawlessly for me. interestingly enough. once this process was completed and while copying/extracting Recallbox files to SD card the process took like 10 times longer than before to copy but.... Raspberry no longer complained about not being able to resize partition

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                              • gothrek
                                gothrek last edited by

                                i can solve the error, "Waiting for SD card (settings partition)", installing NOOBS and from NOOBS select recalbox system.
                                https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/noobs/
                                extract zip file in a folder,
                                copy all file into root sd card,
                                select recalbox system

                                i use an sd 200G format in fat32 with guiformat

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                                • robaer
                                  robaer @zmeta last edited by robaer

                                  @zmeta THIS. WORKED

                                  I bought an MDM rasp pi 3b starter kit. Its my second pi (first is a version 2) and I have imaged and installed the first one a number of times. A month ago I played with noobs on it and decided to get a second pi and use the noobs to get a KODI box installed for another tv.

                                  The pi came with debian on an SDHC card (the sd card adapter even had a cute Raspberry logo) but when I used the most recent SDformater (v5... v4 is no longer available) the all important "size adjustment on/off" option is no longer there... so it didnt wipe all the partitiions properly and I was getting the resize error many on this thread mentioned.

                                  I tried the ridgecrop guiformatter, I tried combinations of sdformatter/guiformater etc. I loaded the mini tool partition magic software and played with all sorts of configurations, deleting, creating one or multiple, formatting everything fat32, different block counts etc and all ended up the same. None of the windows 10 partition/formatting tools were working. It's possible I could have found a proper mix in the partition tool that would have eventually worked or that finding a new driver for the Kingston USB-SD card reader hardware I have resolved it... but going back to good old command line diskpart did the trick. Once I had gone through the diskpart stuff (steps 1-11) I grabbed my NOOBS_v2_4_3 zip, extracted and copied it onto the SD... and it booted like a charm.

                                  I suspect that the diskpart is blowing the partition away and when it creates the FAT32 its using the right blocks etc and a different driver setting for the USB that makes it happy for what the PI is looking for. I havent popped the SD back in to view it through partition magic but expect I would notice something different in the settings than I had selected before.

                                  Thanks ZMETA... saved me a late night (only spent a few hours... would have been much longer I expect).

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                                  • ejr
                                    ejr last edited by ejr

                                    You know what? Everybody's writing how recalbox is easier to install than retropie. I used retropie for about a year and wanted to try recalbox on the same card I had retropie. It's a nightmare to install it, when I'm writing this text I tried all of the methods mentioned above - neither worked and my card is original and compatibile. I still didn't achieved after about 8 hours of trying different format tools. It's impossible and the MYTH of user friendy recalbox has fallen. I'm dissapointed.

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                                    • gothrek
                                      gothrek @ejr last edited by

                                      @ejr i think that its better use 2 cards, and change it when u need to use retropie or recalbox.

                                      my 2 cents

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                                      • ejr
                                        ejr @gothrek last edited by

                                        @gothrek I wrote it about the card to underline that retropie worked on it and there was no problems with resizing partition, I don't want to use two systems. There should be .img version of recalbox.

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                                        • Substring
                                          Substring @ejr last edited by

                                          @ejr I guess trying to install retropie AFTER recalbox wouldn't be a nightmare, but hell itself. I don't think we've ever recommended dual booting, or call me crazy

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                                          • ejr
                                            ejr @Substring last edited by

                                            @substring The card is clean Im not talking about dual booting here 🙂

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