Problem with SD Card

[PalashTaneja]

Hi friends,

I have a Model B raspberry pi, until yesterday I was using a Lexar 4 GB SDHC Card with Raspbian installed via NOOBS and I suppose that the card got corrupted and I had to do an of install Raspbian again but the pi refuses to boot up with the card with NOOBS zip contents in it. I had also created a .img backup of the card using Win32DiskImager and it didn't boot even with that.
I can confirm that the pi doesn't boot because the light on my wireless keyboard receiver doesn't light up. Also I cannot see any green light.

Hoping for Help

[GTR2Fan]

Did you format the SD card before trying again with the recommended SD card formatter as described on the official NOOBS download page?

http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads

[PalashTaneja]

Did you format the SD card before trying again with the recommended SD card formatter as described on the official NOOBS download page?

http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads

Ya pretty sure of that I used Format size adjustment On and Quick Format

[FTrevorGowen]

Did you format the SD card before trying again with the recommended SD card formatter as described on the official NOOBS download page?
http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads

Ya pretty sure of that I used Format size adjustment On and Quick Format

Full (Overwrite) Format + Format Size Adjustment On may be better**
Trev
** see:
http://www.cpmspectrepi.webspace.virgin ... 121XP.html etc.

[hexameron]

I have a similar problem. After two years with no sd-card corruption I got a Sony 4Gb card. This worked well for a month, then got corrupted. Except that it is not always corrupt - on ubuntu it will FSCK clean, and it continues to boot on my model A, but my model Bs cannot load (any) start.elf

Must be a power supply problem...

[kyle2k]

Hi,

Not sure if this is related to your problem or not but on the downloads page it does state that you now need an 8GB (or larger) SD card for a NOOBS installation.

[PalashTaneja]

Hi,

Not sure if this is related to your problem or not but on the downloads page it does state that you now need an 8GB (or larger) SD card for a NOOBS installation.

Sorry bro, but the quick start pdf shows that we need a 4 Gb or larger card.

[PalashTaneja]

I have a similar problem. After two years with no sd-card corruption I got a Sony 4Gb card. This worked well for a month, then got corrupted. Except that it is not always corrupt - on ubuntu it will FSCK clean, and it continues to boot on my model A, but my model Bs cannot load (any) start.elf

Must be a power supply problem...

I will try to use a different power adapter.

[FTrevorGowen]

Hi,
Not sure if this is related to your problem or not but on the downloads page it does state that you now need an 8GB (or larger) SD card for a NOOBS installation.

Sorry bro, but the quick start pdf shows that we need a 4 Gb or larger card.

Both of you are "correct" - the info. on the downloads page (but probably not in the quick start guide) was changed because if you use NOOBS full to install Raspbian** it may not fit on some 4Gb cards, giving rise to problems for some users. Most, if not all, of the other O.S.'s will fit on a 4Gb card and it should be possible to install Raspbian on a 4Gb card with NOOBS lite which downloads Raspbian only (NOOBS full includes compressed images of several O.S.'s).
Trev.
** Which has "grown" somewhat since the main NOOBS docs. were written.

[hexameron]

... cunning plan #1: replace the regulator on my first Model B, Dave Akerman style. Result: so far so good - card now boots on the Pi with new regulator, still fails on my other Model B.