After re-installing Balena Etcher to flash Raspbian images to microSD cards, I kept getting an error message during the final card validation:
- "Source and destination checksums do not match".
The problem is caused by Windows 10 writing a new
System Volume Information
folder to the SD card containing IndexerVolumeGuid
and WPSettings.dat
files While this does not affect the operation of the SD card in a Raspberry Pi, ignoring the checksum error could mask real image corruption problems. There is a simple workaround to prevent Windows from writing that SVI folder, described here: