A simple fix is to pull the SD card out then plug it back in. Select drive - it may find the SDHC Card automaticallyĪfter you flash (burn) the image, File Explorer may have trouble seeing it.Select image - browse to the *.zip file you downloaded from Raspbian.You can use a new SD card right out of the package. Put a blank mini SD card and adapter into your Windows machine.

To run balenaEtcher is pretty straight forward. The installer may launch balenaEtcher when done - if you close it you can always find and run it later.Run Setup ( Open the download folder and click I Agree).To burn an image to the SD card you can use balenaEtcher (formerly known as just Etcher).

Just leave it in your Downloads folder and I'll show you how to burn it to an SD card. Once you download the file, there is no need to unzip it.

I'm using the lite image (no desktop) version 4.9 from March 13, 2018.

These instructions are for a Raspbian Stretch image that I downloaded from here: The Mac OS version of these instructions can be found here: Setup Pi Zero W Headless Wifi (Mac). This article covers setting up the Pi Zero W for headless SSH access over WiFi using Windows 10.

Pi zero w headless setup