Raspberry Pi - microSD card died

Hi,

The microSD card on my raspberry died, so i had to flash a new microSD card.
I am using the “PiAware Image on Raspbian Linux 8.2 ZIP” image made available on the site.
After flashing the new card i tried to enable SSH placing the ssh file on the partition but the partition is unreadable on windows.
I wanted to add my site ID but without SSH access i cannot add it.
Can anyone help please?

Kind regards,
Rodrigo

There should be 2 partitions on the card.
The boot partition is FAT32 and is readable by Windows. That is where you need to place the ssh file.

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Hi,

This is what i see just after flashing the card:

This is what i see from windows explorer:

Never had this issue before.

Side note: I’ve used Balena Etcher to flash the microSD
Will try also with raspberry pi imager and with Rufus to see the result…

(1) For PiawareSD Card image from Flightaware, I always use Win32DiskImager -Trouble-free and very easy for Piaware Image

DOWNLOAD: https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/files/latest/download

USER GUIDE: https://win32diskimager.org/

(2) For raspberryPi OS I use RaspberryPi Imager - Perfect for Raspberry Pi OS image

DOWNLOAD: https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/imager/imager_latest.exe

USER GUIDE: https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/getting-started.html#raspberry-pi-imager

You have to assign a letter to the boot partition.
Usually windows will just show it but not in your case for some reason.

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Hi all!

Flashing with Raspberry Pi Imager didn’t work, although i managed to make it work with Rufus.
Created the ssh file and its working now!
Thanks for your quick replies.

Regards,
Rodrigo

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