Homebrew 2GB SD Card problems

Jalkhov

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Laptop: Lenovo Y560p Windows 10 x64 Bits

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  • Micro SD Adapter: Kingston technology .
  • Micro SD: SanDisk 2 GB (1,83).
FAT32 Format GUI
  • With Allocation unit size from 32768
    • ERROR
      FSCTL_ALLOW_EXTENDED_DASD_IO OK
      ClusterCount=60334
      FAT32 must have at least 65536 clusters, try to specify a smaller cluster size or use the default
      Somewhere I read that the cards had to be formatted in this way, and when I did it with a 4GB card it ran successfully. I don't know if that number changes for smaller capacity cards.
  • With Allocation unit size from 4096
    • PASSED
      FSCTL_ALLOW_EXTENDED_DASD_IO OK
      GuiFormat version 1.02 x86 Windows version 0602 64 bit
      Size : 1GB 3862393 sectors
      512 Bytes Per Sector, Cluster size 4096 bytes
      Volume ID is f14:3737
      32 Reserved Sectors, 3765 Sectors per FAT, 2 fats
      481853 Total clusters
      481852 Free Clusters
      Formatting drive D:\:...
      Clearing out 7570 sectors for Reserved sectors, fats and root cluster...
      Wrote 3875840 bytes in 0.39 seconds, 9.48 Megabytes/sec
      Initialising reserved sectors and FATs...
      Done
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      When I install TWiLightMenu formatted in this way two things happen:
      • UnLaunch opens normally but when I assign BOOT.NDS as NO BUTTON I can't locate the file.
      • The UnLaunch gives me an MBR Empty error.
HDD Low Level Format Tool 4.40: All good, formated in Quick and Slow.
H2testw: Finished without errors.
HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool: Don't read the device.
SD Card Formatter: Correctly formated, but in FAT.
Diskpart: Correctly formated in FAT32.

Otras anotaciones:
  • I noticed that the adapter does not have the Block Switch activated.
  • All programs using have been run with Administrator permissions.

Before I used a 4GB SD Card and everything worked perfectly, at the moment of configuring the unlaunch I got the respective BOOT.NDS file. Of course, I was following the recommendation to fill part of the card with X files so that it would have 2GB available.

I could not continue using that card and I was left with the "2GB" and I thought that everything would be better because it is the one recommended, but nothing.

I wanted to be as specific as possible to avoid the "Try this...I already tried this" dialog. This way we can go straight to solutions that I haven't specified here.

I have visited posts where they raise similar problems but in the end they don't come up with anything specific.

Thank you very much in advance.
 

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Is this particularly problematic? As far as I know, FAT(16) 32KB clusters should be fine
When I installed TWiLightMenu, the BOOT.NDS file to configure it in UnLaunch did not appear.

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This is the content of the sd card.
 
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