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Main => Raspberry Pi & Dev Board => Topic started by: ajmartin on July 08, 2018, 01:38:08 pm
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Hello,
I used win32 disk writer to back up my retropie image once I had it the way I wanted it. So after I trashed the original by screwing around with settings, I copied the backup to another SD card. But now my backup will not boot. Any idea how I should have made a boot-able backup? and is there something I can add to my backup SD card to make it boot retropie.
Thanks,
Alan
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Sure its not corrupted or anything? It should boot from a SD back up no problem.
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Well that is what I thought. I even used SDFormatter to wipe it out, then copied it down again and retried. This is what I did just to be clear. I took the SD card out of the PI and put in in the PC, I used win32diskimager to copy it to a folder . That made my back up. Then when I needed the backup I used win32 again to copy from the saved location to the SD card. Win32 did not see the file as an .img file though so I was skeptical from the start. I did not see any other options besides what I did. I ended up copying the original retropie 4.4 image back to that card and started over. Luckily I had just figured out how to use FileZilla so getting the roms sorted was easier.
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Win32diskimager doesn't save it with the file extension, just rename and add .img to the end
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Win32diskimager doesn't save it with the file extension, just rename and add .img to the end
Yup, This is probably your problem if win32 did not see it.