I got a Raspberry Pi Zero W pack from Adafruit, including their Noobs burned microSD card. But the Noobs image is from a year ago, and consequently doesn't seem to work just right with the 0w. It loads to the OS setup screen, but there's no OS to choose, and you can't connect to ethernet, and the wi-fi option is greyed out, so you can't connect to the internet to pull the stuff from elsewhere, so it's basically autistic mode.
I assume the latest post-0w noobs would work.
So
I'm using Windows 7
I got one of these from a friend who had spares, https://pcgearhead.com/iFrame/card-r...php?PrdID=1276
He confirms it works.
I got this
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/index.html
and my friend also had me get this if I wanted to just go straight to OpenELEC
https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
So I put the SD card in the USB writer. I put the USB writer in my PC. It lights up.
Windows says Device/Driver successful, blah blah blah.
There's nothing in my partitions, no E:\ as usual with USB drives.
Talk to my friend, we dig a bit.
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On one hand Windows says it's there. But for all usable purposes, it's not. I can't access the partition through the viewer, and neither of those programs I got recognize it either. He's at a loss.
So here I widen the net. Help me BG you're my only hope.