

Open the SD card and explore the contents in File Explorer.If you just burned a new image using Etcher you may need to pull the SD card out and plug it back in again for File Explorer to see it.In Windows 10 the SD card should appear in File Explorer as a drive named "boot".NOTE: Windows gets confused when you plug in a Raspbian image and it may try to get you to format it - always hit Cancel.Put the SD card into an adapter and plug it into your computer.If you have the SD card in your Pi Zero, power it down and remove it.If you need to burn a new image to an SD card, download the Etcher tool from.To access the Pi Zero over USB you have to edit the image first. I've also done this with an older desktop version. I'm using the lite image (no desktop) version 4.9 from March 13, 2018.

These instructions are for a Raspbian Stretch image that I downloaded from here: Or you can just plug it into your computer directly and access it over USB using ssh.

When you first get a Pi Zero the big question is - how do you access it? You can get a powered USB hub, USB keyboard, USB mouse and HDMI adapter. The Mac OS version of these instructions can be found here: SSH into Pi Zero over USB (Mac). This article covers setting up a Pi Zero or Pi Zero W for headless SSH access over USB using Windows 10.
