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I just bought a Lenovo ideapad 100s-11iby netbook (which is locked onto windows 10 through the BIOS) with the instension of using it to flash sd cards to use with the raspberry pi 3 b which I have recently purchased as well but so far have not had operational. I have formatted the sd card fat 32 with the windows 10 GUI, CMD, and the sd card format tool from sdcard.org. I tried to flash open source media centre with their sd installer and with win32diskimager and It crashes every time (I might add that sometime during the process I accidentally select a usb drive and it worked.
Do I need a more powerful computer to complete this operation or there something I am doing wrong? I have spent hours trying to figure it out
Thanks in advance
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Here is a list of things to check that I have done wrong in the past.
Is the sdcard >= 8gb? <-- I don’t know what the requirements are but that should be good enough.
Is the lock on the side of the card enabled? <-- This happens to me a lot.
You don’t need a more powerful computer. There is probably someone better suited to help you I use Linux not windows but I have never formatted the card before making an image on it.
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Have you tried a different card?
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I have tried multiple ones to no avail. Maybe someone could please post some download links and what format they used in case I have missed something vital along the way (seems relatively simple though but sometimes the answer is in plain sight).
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Maybe try running win32diskimager from the cmd prompt, and see what kind of error message it spits out when it crashes. It doesn't always, but sometimes it shows the error. If for some reason it closes the cmd prompt window when it crashes, then start win32diskimager from a simple batchfile, but put 'pause' at the end of it. Without the ' '.
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what format doe you use for the sd card? I usually format in cmd but have never run win32diskimage from cmd, it a simple process and would you care to explain?
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I have been doing that but I was also formatting to fat32 after doing cmd clean. Just got a different brand sd card and still no cigar. I shall try again, tempted to get an el cheapo laptop and run linux to see if things changed on that but I'm a tightarse so I really would like to get my head around doing it with windows 10.
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2016-04-28, 09:59
(This post was last modified: 2016-04-28, 10:58 by martyraspberrypi.)
Cmd is freezing sometimes when trying to load diskpart, I'm guessing I just don't have a powerful enough machine, this netbook was $265 with 2gb ram new (can't upgrade because the ram is welded to the motherboard) processor is Intel® Atom™ Z3735F Quad-Core Processor.
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Are you using an adapter or the netbook SD slot?
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I am using the netbook sd card slot, does this make any difference? is it slower or faster?
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The format of the card prior to writing is irrelevant as the operation is a block level write. Are you running the OSMC installer as admin? This is required.
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