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Hi, I have a raspberry pi 3 and pi Zero. The Pi3 and the micro SD card work fine and take me to a screen with drop down menus. The micro SD card that came with the pi zero just gets me to the "$" prompt. Having done a bit of research I've entered the user id and password and then startx. Nothing then happens. If I use the micro SD card from the pi 3 in the pi zero I don't have a problem. Is it just a case of formatting the micro sd card and downloading NOOBS?

It sounds like you pi zero SD card has raspbian lite installed which has no GUI so the startx command will do nothing.

if you want raspbian with GUI download and flash your sd card Raspbian Stretch with desktop.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati ... /README.md

Thank you