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Hello,

Just got my rasp pi b plus, had trouble formatting sd card using linux so i just plugged it in.
This was a bad idea as the install didn't work and I went into recovery mode.
I think I need to reformat to erase everything.
But now when I put it into a linux machine, I have 4 things that mount at the same time (root, settings, new volume, root).
This just made it even harder to format.
I tried using gparted before but it wouldn't let me format, the option was greyed out, I also tried using disk utility which I thought did work but didn't.

Not sure what to do.

Thanks

Just found out that to format in gparted you have to unmount first. So I did that and was able to reformat everything to fat32. But now I still have the issue of 4 mounts, I thought if I reformated everything it would delete everything, but I guess not....
?

I plugged it into the tv and nothing happened.
So I plugged it into the computer again and looks as though it reverted to the non fat 32 version.
Found out it didn't revert at all because the changes were never applied.
In gparted you have to click on apply (the green check on the top) for the changes to take effect.
Putting NOOBS back into the sd card.
Will see if this works and come back to say the result.

Delete all four partitions. Then create just one large FAT32 partition and format it.

Then download the latest NOOBS from the downloads page http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/ and unzip all of the contents into that partition.

yeah, i did that as mentioned before.
It's now installing, will wait and see if it all worked out.
Wish on the instructions for linux it would state that you have to unmount the partition first before you can format, would have made things a bit easier.

I don't have automount enabled on any of my Linux systems (apart from a custom script for my camera that mounts it, copies new photos to my file server, dismounts it and shouts at me to turn it off). I find it a pain in the proverbial.

I'm all good now. Thanks. Installed perfectly.