I was wondering how you managed to have so many problems so I downloaded the image and used my usual and dependable win32diskimager to write the sd card and it worked first time flawlessly.peo wrote: 31 Oct 2020 18:42Have tried with the suggested "WinImage" application, but that one failed the most (asks which partition of the image to open, and fails writing it to the card). I also used the more modern program, Balena Etcher which is highly recommended for writing images (had to uncompress and rename the image file before), success in writing but failed to boot. Next in line was "Raspberry Pi Imager", same "success" as with Etcher.
I've also tried Win32diskimager (ancient) with the same non-bootable result as with the two latter ones.
Maybe your card is faulty?