How to install retropie windows 10#
On Windows 10 it looks like a USB Stick Just click Eject. At the bottom of your taskbar, you will see an icon called (Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media) click it and Eject your MicroSD.or right-click the Start menu in Windows 10 because it feels it wants to be different and click on File Explorer. Go to Start / Computer and check to see if your SD card says, Boot.This is because windows cannot read the Linux OS structure. This may pop up after win32diskimager.exe is complete.If you see this message just click Yes, Just make sure it’s the right drive or you may have a bad day lol
Now plug in your MicroSD into your Raspberry Pi and turn it on.Note: If you did it correctly the MicroSD should now say boot. Make sure the device is the drive letter of your MicroSD and click Write.img on the operating system drive as I noticed weird issues with having it stored on another drive when updating the card or backing it up with win32diskimager.exe SO keep that in mind. Locate your retropie.img you downloaded.Install win32diskimager.exe if you haven’t already and open it.Find the downloaded version of retropie.Įxample mine is: retropie-4.4-rpi2_įor example, mine will be retropie-4.4-rpi2_rpi3.img.This will give you an idea of what you will see. Type select disk “n” replace “n” (with the number of your SD Card)Įxample: Mine is Disk 9 119Gb so I would do this: select disk 9.Search For CMD, right-click it and run as administrator.Please keep this in your mind as you will need to remember it later.
To do this please follow my instructions carefully so you don’t format the wrong drives and only your MicroSD card. Your next step is to put your MicroSD card into the Adapter and plug it into your computer.It is very useful for embedded development, namely, Arm development projects. This program is designed to write a raw disk image to a removable device or backup a removable device to a raw image file. A Windows tool for writing images to USB sticks or SD/CF cards. You can get it here: ///projects/win32diskimager/files/latest/download You are going to need to download win32diskimager.Just make sure you choose the correct one for your Raspberry Pi.