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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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[–] retrolasered@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

I havent used sd cards for a while, but I found balena etcher to be more reliable the pi's sd writer outside of pi OS or debian