at the stage after writing the coreelec img to the sd car and needing to adjust the device tree files - windows will no longer let me see teh content of the SD after its written
just gives the usual - device needs to be formatted message
what’s odd is that i am sure up until a few weeks ago ( the last time i did this ) it would display this message - but still allow the sd card to be accessed and edited
is thsi just me - or is it some kind of windows update changing windows behaviour
rufus can still detect the drive and allow me to write to it - and device manager can still see it and says its working normally - but it is no longer in the list of drives in windows explorer
system info below
OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
Version 10.0.19044 Build 19044
is there a fix/workaround
its a PITA as i am having to edit the sd card in an ancient windows XP laptop i only keep to talk to the computer in the car
for a while it seemed to recognise it if i plugged the USB sd card reader into a different USB port than the one i burned it in - but i have now run out of new ones the card has not been in before - so none of them seem to recognise it
i can format the sd card - and see it again - the card is fine
but once i burn a coreelec img to it windows will not show it anymore - so i cannot edit the dtb etc
I think Rufus knows to burn .img.gz directly. Should check…
But I just remember something. After you burn the card open Computer management and then from it Disk management. And check if you see drive (SD card) with 2 partitions but without drive letter on first one. If only drive letter is missing manually add it.
OK i tried etcher - and the reults were different - but still a bit odd
this time after writing the img file to the sd the PC still reported the card needed reformatting and would not let me view the contents
but when i changed the USB socket it was plugged into - it now did allow access and editing of contents ( something it would not do when i used rufus to write the sd card )
odd - but i guess it shows that its a rufus related issue
No, it´s Microsoft Windows related issue.
I wrote image file >100 times using Rufus, Etcher or win32 disk manager
It is best to do without windows and use linux
There was one recent version of Rufus that did have a problem but v3.18 works.
Sometimes when one USB port works, where another one doesn’t, it can the result of a poor driver as you may have more than one USB controller in your machine, one of which needs a driver update.