need help on Raspberry Pi SD card OS mounting

[hazelludlow]

hullo...

i recently found my Raspberry Pi and am getting it set to stream audio for part of a project and am having some trouble with the SD card and writing a new OS build onto it. I tried reformatting my SD card so i could just plop the new build onto it, but I found out that I needed to wipe out the partition used for the original build mounting. I have been tinkering around with MiniTool partition Wizard and i think that i have done more harm than good. I tried Wiping the Partition, but didn't know if i should fill it with 0 or 1, or both, so i went with both. Partition wiped, storage space says 14.4 (16GB card) and then i went to mount the new build with WinDisk Imager. It says that the img was mounted, but there is still 14.4GB space left. This is where i am at the moment. I tried inserting the card into my Pi and powering on, but got nothing on the monitor.

Any help would be great

[mahjongg]

removing a partition mans modifying a "partition table", and should be done with a partition manager, or with a specialized tool, such as the official "sd-card formatter". it doesn't matter one bit what the actual bits are in the empty space.
after all the partitions are removed you can use any kind of tool to format the space to any kind of FAT format, and then write the boot files to it. After NOOBS boots it will simply re-partition and format the available space, its the very first thing it does!

reporting less space than the card can hold is quite normal.
in fact only a partition manager will be able to tell you what partitions there are, an how much space is allocated to active partitions, and to unused space.

[hazelludlow]

thank you...everything is hunky dory now

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