[mcfinnipoop]

Wow, that’s incredible that Mac was so stubbornly sticking to the NOOBS approach. Don’t give advice if you don’t know what the hell your talking about! NO YOU DON’T NEED TO INSTALL NOOBS FIRST TO INSTALL RETROPI!!! I don’t know why your choosing to confuse this guy with that shit. NOOBS is for excactly that…Noobs.

I have a 32g Class 10 and I am having the EXACT same problem. Contrary to what Mac was tellin you, you CAN format and write to an SD from Windows. Anyone who has owned a pi and done anything other than the basic tutorials can tell you that.

I format using SDFormatter 4.0, then write the image using Win32 Disk Imager, like EVERY tutorial for installing a Rpi OS will tell you if you’re using windows. When Installed on a 4-8gb (I tried both), The image writes fine and boots up on my Pi, but when using a 32GB, It formats correctly, says it’s written successfully, then upon plugging in I only get 1 Red LED(With the 32g. Swapped out with other cards, working fine)

When looking at the SD card in Disk Management, I can see that the install took, there is the boot file and then TWO partitions rather than the usual 1 with smaller sized cards.

Now Mac, Explain to me how I installed WITHOUT NOOBS perfectly fine on the <8g cards, but a 32g has problems. THATS THE QUESTION HE WAS TRYING TO GET ANSWERED!!!

As for trying the NOOBS trick, It doesn’t work because it does not pertain to this issue. I have tried everything including the NOOBS idea since I ran out of options, and when attempting to install via unzip NOOBS to formatted SD, it does the same exact thing. The bottom line is it’s not writing correctly to cards with memory higher than 8g. If anyone has any tips it would be greatly appreciated. But please don’t tell me to go install NOOBS again…

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