So, Is my 3rd sd card that is not showing the real size, after I flash hassio ( * Raspberry Pi 3 Model B and B+ 64bit) (balena etcher and Win32 Disk Imager). 8 Gb, 32 Gb and 64 Gb sd card, from different brands, stop working properly after I flash hassio. I’ve tried already 4-5 times each and almost the same problem over and over again. I fix every time the sd card with diskpart and after this all of my sd cards are showing the real size. I don’t know why and what cause this problem, but I know that something is not working allright. I’ve tried on different pc, and make the same. After I flash hassio, my sd card size is 31.9 Mb, from 8 Gb. Anyone had the same problem? Any ideea what to do?
You need to understand how partitions works and find a program or OS that can view all the partitions.
I’m guessing in diskpart you are cleaning and creating a new primary partition which can then be formatted by windows or in diskpart.
This isn’t unique to Hassio, I have seen it on many other projects where removable media is used as a boot drive.
diskpart -> list disk -> select disk N (N = the disk number) -> clean ->creater partition primary -> select partition 1 -> active -> format fs=fat32.
This is the opperation. I don’t understand whay I need to understand how partitions works, If I have just one.
Another flash, another sd card that is not showing the real size.
I believe after flashing Hassio (HassOs) image you need to increase the partition to occupy the full card.
It’s not going to show the real size because WINDOWS cannot read Linux partitions.
This isn’t a bug, the SDCard isn’t getting corrupt, and there isn’t a SINGLE partition on the SDcard. You are only seeing a single partition because that is all Windows can READ on it.
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This helped me, thanks! Fixed small typo below:
diskpart -> list disk -> select disk N (N = the disk number) -> clean ->creat partition primary -> select partition 1 -> active -> format fs=fat32.