Unir
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NOOBS problem

Mon Mar 28, 2016 10:49 am

When me turn on the pi noobs loaded
message shown
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Error resizing existing FAT partition
Error: The FAT's don't match. if you don't know what this means, then select cancel, run scandisk on the filesystem, and then come back.
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I format my SD with SD Formatter Quick and file size adjustment ON

JoelH12
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Joined: Wed Mar 30, 2016 10:25 pm

Re: NOOBS problem

Wed Mar 30, 2016 10:38 pm

Hi

I have just set up my Pi for the first time, used SD Formatter 4.0, copied the Noobs files and when I switched on the Pi I got the same Error.

"Error resizing existing FAT partition
Error: The FATs don't match. If you don't know what this means, then select cancel, run scandisk on the file system and then come back"

I cancelled and it just keeps searching for an OS, I ran a chkdsk and found no errors. I reformatted and copied the files across (about 5 times now :oops: using both Mac and Windows downloads on different machines - nb the windows version doesnt do anything at all on boot up)

Can anyone help please?

Thanks
Joel

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Rive
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Joined: Sat Mar 26, 2016 5:21 pm
Location: USA

Re: NOOBS problem

Thu Mar 31, 2016 3:58 am

Just use Windows diskpart "clean" command instead of formatting.

Make sure sdcard is sufficent size (you can get a 32GB UHS-1/HC-1 micro sdcard for like $12)

see: http://www.howtogeek.com/235824/how-to- ... -problems/


Also, you don't have to use NOOBS (which only contains Raspbian jessie anyways, everything else is just a download link). You can simply download the OS image/ install it to sdcard using diskimager.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads
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