Unistall Raspian

[danghost]

Can I completely remove rasbian from sd card and install it again. I'm using RPi3

[Rive]

Can I completely remove rasbian from sd card and install it again. I'm using RPi3

Yep. The way I do it is I use diskpart to 'clean' the sdcard, then diskimager to write the raspbian image back to it.

[piglet]

Not sure why you'd want to use diskpart. I just overwrite with diskimager. It doesn't care about what was on there before - it writes directly to the card, not to partitions on the card..

[danghost]

Thanks to all for replying, I want to completely remove all the content in the card, can I use SD formatter to do this and then install new files.
Will it going to corrupt the SD file ?

[fruitoftheloom]

Thanks to all for replying, I want to completely remove all the content in the card, can I use SD formatter to do this and then install new files.
Will it going to corrupt the SD file ?

Yes SDFormatter will undertake removing existing partitions / data, though use the "size adjustment ON" option.

[Rive]

Thanks to all for replying, I want to completely remove all the content in the card, can I use SD formatter to do this and then install new files.
Will it going to corrupt the SD file ?

Yes SDFormatter will undertake removing existing partitions / data, though use the "size adjustment ON" option.

That is the thing I don't get... Especially if you have a windows pc. Windows has a built in disk partitioner/formater. There is no need for third party software like sdformatter. Just use diskpart via cmd. "clean" in diskpart removes all content including hidden, partitions, etc. It literally "cleans' the sdcard/drive, and takes like 10 seconds to do it. I use it all the time on those pesky U3 partitioned thumbdrives.

cmd (admin)
diskpart
list disk
select disk
clean
exit
exit

note- if say the sdcard is disk 2, then you enter select disk 2
That's it. Done. Dont even format the sdcard. let diskimager take care of that.

[fruitoftheloom]

Thanks to all for replying, I want to completely remove all the content in the card, can I use SD formatter to do this and then install new files.
Will it going to corrupt the SD file ?

Yes SDFormatter will undertake removing existing partitions / data, though use the "size adjustment ON" option.

That is the thing I don't get... Especially if you have a windows pc. Windows has a built in disk partitioner/formater. There is no need for third party software like sdformatter. Just use diskpart via cmd. "clean" in diskpart removes all content including hidden, partitions, etc. It literally "cleans' the sdcard/drive, and takes like 10 seconds to do it. I use it all the time on those pesky U3 partitioned thumbdrives.

cmd (admin)
diskpart
list disk
select disk
clean
exit
exit

note- if say the sdcard is disk 2, then you enter select disk 2
That's it. Done. Dont even format the sdcard. let diskimager take care of that.

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