I am still learning how to solve the buster 2020feb05 teething problems, hoping not to wipe out my 500GB SSD again. But I don't seem to have the prerequsiste linux knowledge and skill to handle the weird SSD partition/volume/directory Fat/Fat32/exFAT/NTFS stuff. So I decided to give up for now, and come back to nRF24. The following is about Balena Etcher trouble you might be interested (and warned :) . I use Win32 ImageManager with SHA256 check sum and have other troubles) Reference: (1) "Recent Version of Raspbian Causes Windows 10 to Add Directory to SD Card, Why and How to Stop?" https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/1047460/recent-version-of-raspbian-causes-windows-10-to-add-directory-to-sd-card-why-an