On 30.4.19 10:36, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 30/04/2019 08:28, Tauno Voipio wrote:
>> On 30.4.19 08:25, fugee ohu wrote:
>>> On Monday, April 29, 2019 at 6:45:11 AM UTC-4, fugee ohu wrote:
>>>> I extracted Noobs to a micro sd card put it in my pi zero and
>>>> installed After, rebooting takes me back to the install screen
>>>
>>> Tried Raspbian, kept getting the message unable to expand filesystem
>>> Tried burning my micro sd card with etcher Same thing
>>
>>
>> Get a new card and copy Raspbian on it.
>>
>> Noobs may have write-protected the partition
>> that needs to be changed.
>>
> dd ought to smack the partitions as well as te data.


No.

There is a bit in the SD card which can be turned on to
write-protect an area, but it cannot ever be turned off.

There are tools for handling the low-level properties on
SD cards. I'm using SD Formatter on OS X.

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