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I recently purchased a new, Silicon Power high-quality micro-SD card. I used it multiple times as a boot disk for my Raspberry Pi, each time I burned a 4gb disk image and installed the OS, then connected it to my computer and reformatted the SD card to a 64gb FAT32 filesystem with Windows' diskpart program. However, yesterday, after successfully burning the disk image, which was able to successfully boot the computer, I am unable to resize and reformat the disk. I tried using Diskpart, but i get data error (Cyclic Redundancy Check), and since a number of sites recommended chkdsk, I am unable to use chkdsk because I have a raw filesystem.

This seems like a dead end, because people recommend chkdsk to fix a cyclic redundancy check, but I cannot use chkdsk because I am stuck with a RAW filesystem, which I am unable to format because of Cyclic Redundancy Check errors. There is absolutely no important data on my drive, and I do not have any problem reformatting and clearing all the data on the drive, so I am not looking for a data recovery solution, I am looking for a solution that will allow me to use my 64gb drive again.

I am stuck, please help me recover my drive. Thank you very much!

EDIT: I broke my Raspberry Pi, so I can no longer do any solutions that require the Raspberry Pi. However, I still have a Windows laptop running Windows 8.1.

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Try to boot it again on Raspberry Pi and use

sudo raspi-config

there is an option Expand filesystem. On the next reboot it will try to expand filesystem to the maximum size of flash. Not sure if it might help though, it sounds like flash is dieing

Alex
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