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Originally Posted by Gavdog
PS> What is the best free way to create this image on the card to avoid problems others seem to have experienced? Thank you
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The main way to avoid issues is to use a new µSD card. A lot of reports that re-imaging the original µSD card errored out but using a new µSD card did work.
For the most part, I've just used the tools mentioned in the
Memory Upgrade Mod Guide (With Pictures). Minitool's Partition Wizard has gone through multiple versions while the Flash Drive Image Creator and Flash Drive Image Writer seem to have changed their names to USB Duplicator Image Creator.exe and USB Duplicator Image Writer.exe but with no other changes. You can also try Balena Etcher for multiple OS or dd for MacOS and Linux though dd's command line can be a bit cryptic.
For formatting the µSD card, I use the SD Association's
SD Memory Card Formatter for Windows/Mac.
Please remember that replacing the µSD card is not a magic cure. There are other hardware issues that this will not fix.