Interesting! I never pushed on this before. Windows won't open it, but with cygwin I can get into it.Ignore that message. It'll be referring to the second partition. The one you want to look at is probably drive D.Windows doesn't recognize it at all. It says something like, "Drive E must be formatted before use."
The SD is mounted on E and F (I have a second drive on D). E has:
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E:\>ls -a . bcm2711-rpi-4-b.dtb bcm2712-rpi-cm5l-cm5io.dtb fixup_db.dat start4.elf .. bcm2711-rpi-400.dtb bcm2712d0-rpi-5-b.dtb fixup_x.dat start4cd.elf LICENCE.broadcom bcm2711-rpi-cm4-io.dtb bootcode.bin initramfs8 start4db.elf'System Volume Information' bcm2711-rpi-cm4.dtb cmdline.txt initramfs_2712 start4x.elf bcm2710-rpi-2-b.dtb bcm2711-rpi-cm4s.dtb config.txt issue.txt start_cd.elf bcm2710-rpi-3-b-plus.dtb bcm2712-d-rpi-5-b.dtb fixup.dat kernel8.img start_db.elf bcm2710-rpi-3-b.dtb bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dtb fixup4.dat kernel_2712.img start_x.elf bcm2710-rpi-cm0.dtb bcm2712-rpi-500.dtb fixup4cd.dat meta-data user-data bcm2710-rpi-cm3.dtb bcm2712-rpi-cm5-cm4io.dtb fixup4db.dat network-config bcm2710-rpi-zero-2-w.dtb bcm2712-rpi-cm5-cm5io.dtb fixup4x.dat overlays bcm2710-rpi-zero-2.dtb bcm2712-rpi-cm5l-cm4io.dtb fixup_cd.dat start.elfI see two kernels there.
Statistics: Posted by rickwise — Fri Dec 12, 2025 1:19 pm