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  • 09/09/2015 at 19:32 #105734
    smaikel
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    I have my system up and running. A friend of mine was really impressed and wants exactly the same as I have. He uses the same controllers as I do. I guess a copy of my SD card won’t work?
    I have a Rpi2 and RetroPie 3.

    09/09/2015 at 20:34 #105737
    lilbud
    Participant

    Use win32 disk imager, select the image you downloaded on your PC. Put your sd card in computer, select that sd card in the software. With image selected and sd card in, click read instead of write. it will take the contents of the sd card and replace those of the stock image. Put the second sd card and write the copied image to your friends sd card. Hope this helped!

    09/09/2015 at 21:34 #105743
    gonzothegreat
    Participant

    or if your on a Mac

    http://www.tweaking4all.com/hardware/raspberry-pi/macosx-apple-pi-baker/

    09/09/2015 at 22:07 #105749
    Floob
    Member

    I use this method

    http://smartretro.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=58

    09/12/2015 at 09:58 #105930
    jenksie
    Participant

    This may seem like a silly question but why can’t you just copy the contents of the card?

    09/12/2015 at 15:06 #105935
    herbfargus
    Member

    You could do that too, to a point- but the issue is most people have windows and windows cant read Linux partitions. Win32diskimager writes a bootable image which acts as the operating system as well as the file system so when you clone the sd with win32diskimager it takes care of all partitions.

    09/13/2015 at 11:29 #105999
    jenksie
    Participant

    [quote=105935]You could do that too, to a point- but the issue is most people have windows and windows cant read Linux partitions. Win32diskimager writes a bootable image which acts as the operating system as well as the file system so when you clone the sd with win32diskimager it takes care of all partitions.

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    Ah thanks. Makes sense now.

    10/22/2015 at 09:12 #108176
    soapy49
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    I am new, and I am trying to clone a 16gb SDcard and keep getting this error ” not enough space on disk size 31211520 sectors available 31116288 sectors size 512″
    any help would be much appreciated

    Cheers :)

    10/22/2015 at 13:08 #108180
    Floob
    Member

    When I have that type of error I do this:
    http://smartretro.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=58

    Although I’m sure there are other ways to go about it.

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