

If not, right click the SD card and select “Change Drive Letter and Paths”. Check if it has a drive letter like D or E.

In Disk Management, your SD card will appear as a removable disk. Right click “My Computer” and select “Disk Management”. Follow the steps below to add a drive letter: If your SD card doesn’t show up in Windows 10 File System, but in Disk Management, check whether there is a drive letter for the card. There is no shortcut if you want to test the SD card not recognized or working on Windows 10. Alternatively, try another SD card to check the interface. In this case, just connect your SD card to another computer or Android phone. Sometimes it is the computer interface that breaks, rather than SD card. I am sure there are many other options if you Google for 'UEFI USB bootable'.Windows Free Download Win Version Mac Free Download Mac Version If now, there are some tools out there made to do this for you. img files provided by AtomicPi to an SDcard or USB stick should write this UEFI partition for you. To note: using 'dd' to write any of the provided.

Instead, this is not how it works and without the device being present with that UEFI partition in tact, you can't select to boot from the device and it will not show up as an option. This seems backwards logic for me, as one would expect that even if the device isn't 'currently bootable' that you would still have the option to choose the device, be it 'USB device' or something similar and at least tell it to expect to boot from that location. Basically, unless the UEFI partition exists and things are setup correctly on the device (SDcard, USB stick, USB hard drive), the BIOS will not even show the device as an option to select to boot from. I made the mistake of thinking I could just 'dd' the eMMC over to an SDcard and boot that SDcard, I was wrong, there seems to be some magic there. I my self went on a learning experience over the past day or so trying to figure out something that is essentially quite silly that I overlooked.Īny device you want to boot from MUST have a UEFI partition on the device related to the operating system you intend to boot. Here is another quick tip to help people who haven't dealt much with UEFI BIOS and the quirks of devices and booting.
