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Stuck at this message “Formatting data partition” while trying to boot MotioneyeOS from a Raspberry pi 3B. I’ve flashed a 32GB microSD with the motioneyeos image file using Etcher. Is the problem with the SD card?enter image description here Please advise.

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  • Does your RPi work if you try RaspiOS on it? Commented Oct 28, 2021 at 12:21
  • Yes, it does! I've been using the same RPi for a while with RaspiOS on a different SD card. Then I bought a new SD card and flashed the motioneyeos on it using Balena Etcher. When I try to boot it the first time, its stuck at this message "Formatting Data Partition"...Could it be an SD card issue? (I connected it to my PC and there seems to be no issue). Commented Oct 28, 2021 at 16:01
  • Download this: github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos/releases/download/20200606/… and use this: downloads.raspberrypi.org/imager/imager_latest.exe to write it to your SDCard. Commented Oct 29, 2021 at 14:39

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with big size SSD/miscroSD's just keep calm until the disk is partitioned, for me it was some around 30 minutes.

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I have had this problem myself. It was solved by using an order image of the software. Like around the time the pi 3 cam out. It still works with the older image but not the newest. Hope trying an older software image helps you.

Ok..try this and if this doesn't work try booting off a USB + this image. Motioneyeos-raspberrypi3-20180627

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  • Do you have a particular version number? The Pi 3 came out in 2016 and the 3+ in 2018. The eighth release of MotionEyeOS was 20160109, and about 31(!) releases later came 20181209, that is quite a lot of releases to choose from. Please edit and update answer, if possible. Thanks Commented Aug 12 at 10:53

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