Formatting s d card

billyolly

My wife has a Samsung Mini Galaxy ,if I put a new s d card and format it will it erase all her photos and videos.Please be patient with me as I am in my sixties and not very tech savvy.

marleyboy

YES. A format will wipe the card of any data. I advise copying the images onto the computer before formatting.

forgotmyname

If its a new card then it wont have her photos and video's.

One thing to watch is the way the phone shows the different storage drives, one of the SDs listed will be the internal storage, you dont want to format that.

googler

billyolly wrote: »

My wife has a Samsung Mini Galaxy ,if I put a new s d card and format it will it erase all her photos and videos.Please be patient with me as I am in my sixties and not very tech savvy.

If you format a brand new, unused SD card, that will have no effect on any photos or videos which are stored on the internal memory of the device. If you can view these photos and videos without the SD card being placed in the device, then it's a safe bet that's where they are.

Follow the instructions for the device precisely and you should be fine.

I take it you want to put the SD card in and make copies of all these photos and videos onto the SD card?

billyolly

I put a 16 gb card in and panicked when it said formatting could erase photos and videos

securityguy

Yes, if you were formatting a previously used SD card that had photographs on, they would be erased. But if it's new, there's nothing on it, is there?