Raspberry Pi, Boot Issues.

[davexeno]

Hello, first post and sad to say I haven't quite got very far yet.

I received a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B V1.1 from family this year and wanted to get going with it, in my haste I purchased a 64gb Class 10 Micro SD card to go with it, I am wondering if this is the root of my problems (Bare with me).

I have followed the guides, instructions, troubleshooting regarding installation of the OS onto the SD card, as follows.
- Using Windows DiskPart;

• Select Disk X
  Select Vol Y
  Del Vol
  Clean
  Create Partition Primary
  Select Partition 1
  Format fs=fat32

This error'd at the end, however it actually created the partition. Using then a utility called GUI Format I formated the 60GB of empty space into FAT32, this seemed to work.

Then using the tool to install Raspbian (Win32 Disk Imager I think is suggested?) It installs the image onto the SD card, but repartitions the space to 60MB. Trying to run that on the Pi gives me no picture, no output and no ACT light. So I repeat the above process and try the NOOB OS, either on the lite network install or the 1GB network install I get a different problem.

Error Condition

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I copy the files to the SD card, place it into the Pi, I then boot it up, I get a rainbow screen briefly, then a prompt with a few errors that appear to be relating to the O/S and/or SD card (see above), none of the files are listed as read only. Nor is there a read only slider for the SD card. I'm probably missing something reaaallly simple, or the SD card maybe isn't compatible?

Note; SD Card is a Strontium Nitro 566X Class 10 Micro SD Card. (64GB).

SD Card

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Hints/Thoughts/Tips? Maybe I'm formatting/partitioning the sd card wrong?

[Navyscourge]

I am not sure which instructions you are following, but installing NOOBS should be easy. Try these: https://www.raspberrypi.org/help/noobs-setup/

Make sure that the card is formatted as FAT, not exFAT, as a 64 GB card defaults to exFAT. Also make sure that you unzip the files from the NOOBS download and copy the FILES to the card, not the zip file

There is also a troubleshooting thread in this forum, try this: viewtopic.php?f=28&t=58151&sid=e761b5e2 ... 67f7af6d8a

Let us know how far you get and what error messages you get

[davexeno]

Thanks for the reply,

The instructions I followed were in the unzipped "README" of the NOOB O/S Directory. I copied the FILES over, not the Zip, onto the root directory of the SD Card. I also made sure that the SD card is formatted in FAT32, not exFAT or other, as per instructions.

Most of the above, and the extra bits I've done are from the troubleshooting thread you've linked. I've read that and unless I've missed something on there (Notably the ACT light failing to stay lit hinted at an SD failure/problem) then please point me in that direction.

The attached in the OP is the original error messages I get.

Just out of interest, I repeated the steps in the video.
Formatted the SD card using the software suggested, but this puts it into exFAT as its 64GB, I then used GUIFORMAT.exe to format it as a FAT32 filesystem. I then drag dropped, precisely as explained in the video - to the SD Card, and... for some reason this time it worked... But now I have a new problem! 'Error re-sizing existing FAT partition Fatal: Out of memory.' which when I close that dialogue box I get "Waiting for SD card (settings partition)", well, it's a step further at least