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I did'nt get any errors using sudo dd bs=4M if=raspian.img of=/dev/sda1, the terminal showed success but when I plug my sd card into the pi, pi was not booting up! Can someone suggest me some softwares which I can install on raspberry pi to write images onto to other sd-cards.

Harish Hari
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    Welcome. There is nothing wrong with dd -- you are using it incorrectly. You don't have to bother reading the duplicate question, just read the accepted answer. You should be using /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1. The first is the whole card. The second is just the first partition, which will not produce a workable result. – goldilocks Jan 22 '19 at 15:21
  • I tried both I think, I'm not sure! – Harish Hari Feb 07 '19 at 19:55
  • Well, there's nothing subjective or ambiguous here, presuming /dev/sda is the card; /dev/sda1 cannot be the card, it can only be a filesystem partition. If dd if=raspbian.img of=/dev/sda bs=4M doesn't work, there's no point in trying anything else because the only explanation for that would be: 1) Defective hardware/card, 2) A corrupted or invalid image file. – goldilocks Feb 07 '19 at 20:23
  • dd worked with /dev/sda – Harish Hari Feb 15 '19 at 08:48

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