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grippie:
Just got my Pi2 and a simple case. I ordered a cheap snes controller to get this up and running and play around with it.


downloaded retropie and loaded it to an 8GB samsung micro SD. plugged everything in and it booted up perfectly right into emulation station with placeholder systems. perfect! I expanded the file system and rebooted perfect! then i went to reset it without doing a sudo hault (pulling the plug) and now I can't even get the SD card to be recognized by windows or mac. It shows the drive where my usb card reader is plugged in but doesn't recognize the card at all. No programs like sdformatter recognize anything in the drive.


is it basically a piece of plastic garbage now? I ordered a power switch as well so i can shut it off without unplugging it (after shutting down nicely through ES) but i'm nervous to screw up another sd card. they aren't expensive, but if my buddy accidentally unplugs it or whatever is it going to ruin more cards???

DaOld Man:
I havent bricked any... yet.
Since you cant re-format it with sdformatter, maybe the card just crapped out?
That mausberry switch works pretty good, but I dont think it will protect against power outages and un-pluggings.
I have not tested it yet, I plan to make a backup on my windows of the sd card and do some experimenting, been working a lot of hours this week and havent had a lot of time to work on this.
Im thinking either a big capacitor, or a rechargeable battery, to supply current to the pi long enough for it to safely shutdown, in the event of a main power outage.

geeteoh:
I have not bricked any. I have two RPi1s and two RPi2s. I mostly shut them down with halt commands, but I have also just removed power without issue. I have, however, only owned them since this spring. I do pull disk images from them from time to time just in case. I run cheap class-4 8gb and 16gb cards right now.

Slippyblade:
I've not bricked any.  I've got 3 Pi's.  An old model A and two B+.  I've cycled through my cards a LOT when experimenting with distros with no problems.  All class 10's though.  I've got a 4gb, two 16's, and a 32.

pbj:
Better off using an old Xbox, to be honest.

Still waiting on something useful to do with my Pi 2....

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