General discussion • Re: Pull/Remove/1.9.4 version of Pi Imager off the website.

Updated rpi-imager on windows 11, installed v1.9.6, trying to prepare a new SD card for to use in a Pi zero, keep getting a windows
error message:-

Windows error message generated using V1.9.6

ERROR -> Error writing to device during formatting

used the debug option with rpi-imager.exe --debug the information is produced

Disk space check complete: 234 GiB available in "C:/Users/cex/AppData/Local/Raspberry Pi/Imager/cache"
[INFO] Enumerating PCISTOR
[INFO] Enumerating SCSI
[INFO] Enumerating PCISTOR
[INFO] Enumerating SCSI
[INFO] Enumerating PCISTOR
[INFO] Enumerating SCSI
[INFO] Enumerating PCISTOR
[INFO] Enumerating SCSI
[INFO] Enumerating PCISTOR
[INFO] Enumerating SCSI
[INFO] Enumerating PCISTOR
[INFO] Enumerating SCSI
Starting format operation - skipping cache operations
Formatting device "\\\\.\\PhysicalDrive1" with cross-platform implementation
Opening Windows device: \\.\PhysicalDrive1
Warning: FSCTL_ALLOW_EXTENDED_DASD_IO failed, continuing anyway
Successfully opened device: \\.\PhysicalDrive1
WriteAtOffset: WriteFile failed, offset=4210688, chunk_size=7787008, error=5

Tried different SD card no difference same message, the thing is I can format the SD card on windows
no problems and no error messages.

Any ideas?

Statistics: Posted by devlina — Tue Jul 22, 2025 8:39 pm

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