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I need to 'clone' my Raspberry's SD card, so I can send it to a friend. I need the project to work in any raspberry.

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Seeing a lot of posts about how to do this, I decided to use Win32 Disk Imager. When I create the image and try to open the image to see if everything is okay, I get the following message: 'The disk image file is corrupted'.

I ignored that just to see if my raspberry worked with that SD card, but it didn't.

I was afraid that my original SD card was corrupted, but everything works fine with the original.

I ran the Disk Imager in compatibility mode with windows 7 (I have windows 10), but I get the same results.

Also, the original SD card is 8Gb and I am making the copy in a 16Gb card. I really don't care about the wasted space right now, I just want my project to work on any raspberry with the cloned SD card.

What am I doing wrong?

2 Answers

I'm going to assume that your real question is 'I need to 'clone' my Raspberry's SD card, so I can send it to a friend.', rather than difficulties with a specific way of doing it, ie. Win 32 Disk Imager and 'What am I doing wrong?'.

I found that Win32 Disk Imager was unreliable: I had 2 micro SD cards, both 16GB, same make and model and even bought at the same time, but the image of one was slightly bigger by a few bytes than from the other, and so it could not be restored to the slightly smaller card. Also, just because you have taken an image, you need to restore it in order to see that it works. I had also occasionally found that images would not restore, even onto a smaller card.

So instead I turned to rpi-clone, which I believe would be a solidly reliable answer for you. So I'm suggesting my answer to 'What am I doing wrong?' is, 'You're using an inferior method'.

I've been using rpi-clone every day for a few weeks to clone my running RPi3 running Raspian Jessie.It takes about 10 minutes to clone to a second Micro SD card. I then switch off, take out both cards, store the original and boot using the clone. Hence I know that the backup works. I rotate 3 cards in this way, so that I always have a safe card. It works for me ;-)

The only thing I would say is that I don't believe you should be expecting a backup from one version of Raspberry Pi to work in a different version.

It is normal for windows to say that the image is corrupted because the file system is EXT4 and FAT and windows is not used to having 2 partitions in the same image. To see the files in the image, use 7-zip (https://www.7-zip.org/a/7z1801.exe).

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One piece of software we have been using a lot lately is Win32 Disk Imager. The software provides a very easy way to create bootable USB media using a .img file. Recently we have used it for two applications in the lab. The first was to image pfsense to a bootable USB drive. The second was to image Raspbian to a small Secure Digital card for a Raspberry Pi installation. More to come on both projects shortly. Suffice to say, with the new Microsoft Surface Pro, we wanted a mobile imaging solution to build bootable USB and SD media while working on servers. Win32 Disk Imager is a great resource for that task.

Win32 Disk Imager Usage

There is not much to Win32 Disk Imager in terms of features. With Win32 Disk Imager you can select a disk image downloaded from the Internet. For this article we are using the February 2013 Raspbian Linux build image. One can manually type out the image path or use the folder icon to use Windows Explorer.

The next step is to find a target device to write to. In the K: drive location there was a SD card in this instance. Raspberry Pi devices require booting from SD card so this is a a common use case.

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Win32 Disk Imager does do some basic checking to ensure that the media selected will accept the image. For example, Win32 Disk Imager will halt the process if the media is write protected as an example. One does need to exercise a bit of care with Win32 Disk Imager as the utility will erase data on the media during the process. Win32 Disk Imager also has the ability to verify images using MD5 which can be useful to ensure everything checks out.

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To download the latest version of Win32 Disk Imager one can go to SourceForge.

Thanks for the review! We wanted to keep Win32DiskImager simple, thus the lack of features.

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Actually, a lot of features are there (and more have been added since this review), but they are mostly under the hood. Things like md5 sum copy (useful when uploading images to the web or writing documentation/email), drag and drop file selection, default directory, and recently a custom file selection window (Windows API had either OpenFile or SaveFile, each with built-in checks that couldn’t be disabled, and both only return a filename to the calling routine).

We have also fixed numerous bugs since v0.7, including a rewrite of the code to find the “/Downloads” directory (something Microsoft likes to move around without notice).

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I hope you find it even more useful now. As always, leave feedback on either the sourcerge.net project area or launchpad.net We are gearing up for more features with the coming v1.0 release, later this year.

Thanks for the support,

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Tobin Davis