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SD Card fails to format using official SD Card format tool on Windows (programming.dev)

submitted 2 months ago by JackbyDev@programming.dev to c/raspberrypi@lemmy.ml

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I don't get a very detailed error message but it fails and tells me to try reinserting it. I've tried a few times. It fails at different percentages sometimes. Any thoughts or ways to get a more detailed error message? I have Mac and Linux too.

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[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Been a while since it was updated; but I used to use Win32DiskImager for reading/writing rpi cards.

I had a couple cards fail where they wouldn't throw any errors during the actual write process, but once on to the verify step (checking that what was written to the card matches the source file, after writing) then they'd fail. Data hadn't been written correctly, but it wasn't reporting failures during writes.

Perhaps this is your issue? Not sure I'd trust those cards regardless.