Thursday, February 8, 2018

How to install Raspbian Stretch to SD Card for Raspberry-pi using Windows (bonus how to unlock SD Card using Windows)

You need to download Raspbian Stretch from https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/
File 2017-11-29-raspbian-stretch.zip size: 1.64 GB (1,764,972,666 bytes)

Extract it.
File 2017-11-29-raspbian-stretch.img size: 4.58 GB (4,919,918,592 bytes)

Download and install Win32 Disk Imager from https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/. 

Step to write your Raspbian Stretch image into SD Card:

  1. Put your SD Card into slot and run Win 32 Disk Imager.
  2. Select image files and point device to your SD Card.
  3. Click Write and wait until it finish. It will take some times, the image size is big :).

It takes 5-10 minues on my PC.

In case your SD Card state Write Protect or something like that, and you are sure that your SD Card switch is Unlock please follow these to unlock your SD Card (bonus): 
Caution: Use with your own risk! These instructions below may destroy your existing system/data on your hard drive if not careful.
A. Remove SD Card protection policy by running regedit

  1. Open Computer -> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> System -> Current Control Set -> Control
  2. Create (if not exist) or edit Storage Device Policies to DWORD (32 bit) Value to 0
  3. Restart your windows 

B. Unlock and remove any partition on SD Card

  1. Run diskpart
    Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.16299.15
    Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.
    On computer: DEDET2013
  2. List your disk (CAUTION: Please read/select your disk carefully otherwise you may remove partition on your hard drive)
    DISKPART> list disk
      Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
      --------  -------------  -------  -------  ---  ---
      Disk 0    Online          465 GB   451 MB        *
      Disk 1    Online         7580 MB  3072 KB
  3. Choose/select your sd card
    DISKPART> select disk 1
    Disk 1 is now the selected disk.
    DISKPART> list disk
      Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
      --------  -------------  -------  -------  ---  ---
      Disk 0    Online          465 GB   451 MB        *
    * Disk 1    Online         7580 MB  3072 KB
  4. It will mark * for selected disk, now you can unlock and remove any partition on selected disk.
    DISKPART> clean
    DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk.
  5. Exit diskpart by type exit command
    DISKPART> exit

Running Raspberry Stretch for first time:
  1. Default user is pi with password raspberry, to change default password for pi user:
    $ passwd 
  2. Set password for root:
    $ sudo passwd root
References: 

  • https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/ 
  • https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/windows.md 
  • https://www.easeus.com/storage-media-recovery/remove-write-protection-in-windows-10-8-7.html 


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