NOOBS unzipping

[Zx81startedit]

Bought my children Carrie Anne Philbin's book for Christmas. I thought we should do as she suggests and use NOOBS on our SD card. We had previously successfully formatted, download, unzipped and transferred Rapsbian to the SD card.
We went to downloads and selected 'image' in offline and network section.
We then saved the zip file.
When we right click and select Extract to new folder, Peazip opens and asks us for a password, didn't napped previously.
We have tried several times with same result. Looked for help in forum but couldn't spot any.
Any ideas? Thanks

[gsh]

It shouldn't require a password, I'd suggest you try a different extracting program

[Phill Rymer]

Bought my children Carrie Anne Philbin's book for Christmas. I thought we should do as she suggests and use NOOBS on our SD card. We had previously successfully formatted, download, unzipped and transferred Rapsbian to the SD card.
We went to downloads and selected 'image' in offline and network section.
We then saved the zip file.
go to d Extract to new folder, Peazip opens and asks us for a password, didn't napped previously.
We have tried several times with same result. Looked for help in forum but couldn't spot any.
Any ideas? Thanks

use windows built in extract select open with explorer the use tab extract all then use select all then open tab copy select copy to select external drive I or whatever your sd card is recognised as varies depending on what you have connected to usb ports

[DougieLawson]

When we right click and select Extract to new folder, Peazip opens and asks us for a password, didn't napped previously.

Un-install peazip

If you really need a third party zip file utility get a copy of 7z from http://www.7-zip.org/

[Zx81startedit]

When we right click and select Extract to new folder, Peazip opens and asks us for a password, didn't napped previously.

Un-install peazip

If you really need a third party zip file utility get a copy of 7z from http://www.7-zip.org/

Thanks, have un-installed Peazip and windows asked me which programme to use when I right clicked and selected Extract. So have downloaded 7z.
7z says unable to open when I try to unzip NOOBS zip file.
What size should zip file be? Download says 1.28Gb but only 27Kb is downloaded.

[DougieLawson]

It should be 1,378,964,785 bytes
Which Windows reports as: 1,346,646 KB

[drgeoff]

We went to downloads and selected 'image' in offline and network section.

Methinks you did not. There is no instance of the word 'image' in the offline and network section of NOOBS at http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads.

None of the NOOBS downloads are images. Part of the raison d'etre for NOOBS is that RPi OS images cannot be put on SD cards using only programs or utilities provided in MS Windows. NOOBS overcomes that.

Regardless, whatever you downloaded was not the correct zip file. As per a post above, the size should be much more than 27 Kbytes. Try downloading again.

[Zx81startedit]

We went to downloads and selected 'image' in offline and network section.

Methinks you did not. There is no instance of the word 'image' in the offline and network section of NOOBS at http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads.

None of the NOOBS downloads are images. Part of the raison d'etre for NOOBS is that RPi OS images cannot be put on SD cards using only programs or utilities provided in MS Windows. NOOBS overcomes that.

Regardless, whatever you downloaded was not the correct zip file. As per a post above, the size should be much more than 27 Kbytes. Try downloading again.

Thanks for all your help.
All well in the end, Pi now running with NOOBS.
Problem solved by early morning zip file download before our rural telephone exchange got too busy.