Error: Resizing Existing FAT Partition

[Nanolight]

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.

[Nanolight]

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...

[Tom]

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......

[chill8ut]

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

[lookrecruits]

@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.

[zmeta]

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

[netcat]

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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

[gothrek]

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

[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).

[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.

[gothrek]

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

my 2 cents

[ejr]

@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.

[Substring]

@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

[ejr]

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

[Substring]

@ejr alrite ! so how are you trying to install ? I'd recomment a plain empty noobs from raspberry and then do a net install

[ejr]

@substring Didn't know that there is such option Thanks I'll try that.

IT WORKED! There was no resizing existing Fat Partition Error. I just transfered Noobs lite installer files on the card and installed recalbox easily over the net. It was the best and easy way to do that, thanks Substring