Problems with my SDHC

[Big Fudge]

Hello there,

This is my first post here, so far I love the Pi
But I'm having a bi of a problem with my memory card.... I picked it out from the list of verified working peripherals, it's the Patriot 32GB SDHC Class 10 (PSF32GSDHC10). I wrote my image to it just fine, and used my Pi for a little bit, but being as curious as I was, I wanted to try out some of the other distros for the pi. So I took the card out of the pi and put it into my laptop to format and was surprised to see that the card is registering as a 55.7 MB card... I thought "silly computer, thats a 32 GB card" and then I hit reformat... It reformatted just fine... But it still says it only has 55.7MB total. I didn't pay attention to what size it said when I first put the card in my computer because I was so anxious to get my pi up and running... I've searched around the forums and found that people are having problems with this card... But I've not seen any problem that relates to mine.... So is this a faulty card, or can it be fixed?

Thanks for reading my post... Sorry it was so long winded...

[dukla2000]

Everything is normal - presuming your laptop is running some flavour of MS Windoze. Which doesn't have the ability to recognize the partition format used by linux for the remainder of the card, it can only see the first FAT formatted partition.

Just rebuild your card as per MS Windoze instructions for the distribution you now want.

[Big Fudge]

Everything is normal - presuming your laptop is running some flavour of MS Windoze. Which doesn't have the ability to recognize the partition format used by linux for the remainder of the card, it can only see the first FAT formatted partition.

Just rebuild your card as per MS Windoze instructions for the distribution you now want.

Haha... Thanks...I just reformatted it with an SD card formatting program from the SD association... It's all good now.... I didn't think of what you said until just now when you mentioned it, and it makes sense.

[raspberrypiguy1]

Don't worry this is quite a common 'problem'!!!

Now basically your SD card is separated into Partitions... The majority of the Partitions are Linux ones, meaning that this is how your Pi operates etc. etc. Sadly if you are using a Windows machine it can not recognize the Linux partitions.... It can only recognize the windows ones (Normally called FAT). If I am correct there is only a 70mb FAT partition. If you try to format your card that is all it will format. To re-format your card properly I recommend some community software called wipePi... It is really simple GUI but you have to make sure that your SD card is in the Z drive... Z DRIVE... Z DRIVE.. Z DRIVE. I think you got that part! If you do not have it the Z drive, Google how to rename your drives! Any way without further ado here is the forum link where you can download it:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... Pi#p133847

Good luck and notify me of any further problems!

The Raspberry Pi Guy

My YouTube Raspberry Pi tutorial channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheRaspberr ... ature=mhee

[Big Fudge]

Don't worry this is quite a common 'problem'!!!

Now basically your SD card is separated into Partitions... The majority of the Partitions are Linux ones, meaning that this is how your Pi operates etc. etc. Sadly if you are using a Windows machine it can not recognize the Linux partitions.... It can only recognize the windows ones (Normally called FAT). If I am correct there is only a 70mb FAT partition. If you try to format your card that is all it will format. To re-format your card properly I recommend some community software called wipePi... It is really simple GUI but you have to make sure that your SD card is in the Z drive... Z DRIVE... Z DRIVE.. Z DRIVE. I think you got that part! If you do not have it the Z drive, Google how to rename your drives! Any way without further ado here is the forum link where you can download it:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... Pi#p133847

Good luck and notify me of any further problems!

The Raspberry Pi Guy

My YouTube Raspberry Pi tutorial channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheRaspberr ... ature=mhee

Thanks a bunch man, I'll have to check that software out. Hey... Do I have to have it in the z drive? haha..

[bindhu]

i'm trying to connect my pi to lan through switch. but can't access the net. i'm using debian wheezy.

[drgeoff]

What responses do you get to the following commands?

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ifconfig

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ping 8.8.8.8

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ping google.com

(And next time you have a question, please try to post under a more appropriate title.)