Hi all, This probably isnt related directly to the image im using and bear in mind Im a noob to the Pi and RetroPie. I have waited anxiously to get this image running so would appreciate any help with my problem. I first bought a chinese 128gb card that failed miserably when trying to full format, and write image in full. I then, not learning my lesson bought another cheap card from UK and have not tried a full format yet, but as it takes 3 and half hours to write an image, I just tried to write the image after a quick format.

Twice now I have successfully written the image to the card (8 hours later) and I have had same problem happen which I will explain, and Im sure someone here will be able to identify whats  going on.

When I first boot the image it comes up with an error along the lines of:

ExT4-fs error : ext4_iget:4202 : inode #516169 : comm fbi : bad extra_isize

then it hangs for about 15 minutes (busy light going) then has a few more lines come up, before a huge line of square blanks appear filling pages (so I cannot see what the command it was executing) that ends 'file name too long' and leaving me at the console with a retropie info dash containing a little environmental info like cpu temp etc.

Im hoping your not going to tell me the card is crap and is the cause of the file system corrupting. I have read that some MicroSD cards are not capable of holding the full image but when writing the image the bytes are less than what my windows machine reports are available on my card, is the accurate enough?

Im using a pi 3 model b, and win32 disk imager

any insight would be gratefully received