Sd card format

ktate

Can anyone help please
iv a micro sd card that when pluged into the usb kept saying you need to format so I tried to then after trying to format the card
Then it kept saying Windows was unable to compleat the formatting Any ideas please

JJ_Egan

Format as what ??
FAT 32 is the usual .

arciere

Normally that keeps happening if either the card (likely) or the reader (less likely) are faulty.

kwame41

Sounds like the card is faulty.

File format FAT32, NTFS makes no difference.

Windows not being able to format usually means the cards kaput!

motorguy

ktate wrote: »

Can anyone help please
iv a micro sd card that when pluged into the usb kept saying you need to format so I tried to then after trying to format the card
Then it kept saying Windows was unable to compleat the formatting Any ideas please

Is it an SDHC or SDXC card?

My laptop (a two year old HP Envy i7) will throw that error if i try to insert an SDXC card, as it only can read SDHC cards.

Does the card otherwise work on / in other devices?

esuhl

I've had problems formatting flash USB devices in the past. This HP tool has fixed the problem for me:


https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/hp-usb-disk-storage-format-tool/

motorguy

esuhl wrote: »

I've had problems formatting flash USB devices in the past. This HP tool has fixed the problem for me:


https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/hp-usb-disk-storage-format-tool/

Will have a look thanks. My laptop has no issues at all with USB sticks. Its SDXC that it objects to. Will see what this tool makes of it.

ktate

Thank you Monica hopefully I should be able to sort it with all the info you have given me many thanks

JJ_Egan

You do realise that was a spam post .

AndyPix

monica509 wrote: »

. The virus will keep writing dangerous files to it, leading to the SD card inaccessible.

That sentence is nonsense


Edit : after noticing the last sentence - whole post marked as spam

Frozen_up_north

The SD Association have a format utility in the Download section:
https://www.sdcard.org

I use their Windows utility program occasionally to clear partitions from SD cards when working with a Raspberry Pi. Removing a disk partition from an SD card can be tricky under Windows, this utility does it while formatting.

Also, note there are a lot of fake cards around...