Help with Raspberry PI Image

[Sardine]

Ok i screwed up but didnt know until i needed my backup.


i have 2 backups of my retro PI setup, one is 8gb the other is 32gb

zipped up to save space

both extract to 0.fat and 1.img

they are definitely zipped not just renamed. so changing "retropie backup 32gb new.zip" to "retropie backup 32gb new.img" doesn't work

i cant remember what program I used to backup the image. I usually use Windisk32imager but only accepts .img files.

I can explore both the 0.fat and 1.img and all the files are there but extracting them doesnt work correctly some permissions and file names errors so they need writing as an image.


does anyone know of a program that can recombine the 0.fat - 1.img to a new IMG file ?? or a program to write them back to an SD card


using windows 10.

 

[supaduper]

Winimage should write .img files, try here, you must run it as AMINISTRATOR

Fire it up select your Drive from the `Disk`drop down menu, then select RESTORE VIRTUAL HARD DRIVE from the `Disk` menu again , a window will open select your .img and away you go
https://www.winimage.com/download.htm

 

[Sardine]

Thanks but thats not the issue

the 0.fat is partition 1 ( Fat readable in windows )
and
1.img is partition 2 ( Linux or whatever pi uses not readable in windows )

I cant simply write 1.img as thats partition 2 and not bootable.

i need to write both files to the sd card or recombine them to a single IMG file.

if you download a PI image inside the pi image is 0.fat and 1.img so they are supposed to be contained inside the main IMG file which im missing.