Why is my TF card not showing in Win Explorer + it dont autorun ??

alykhalil1

Hi All

I have a question to ask you professional people.

I run windows 10. When i connect my TF card to the PC, this drive don't show in the windows explorer NOR does my PC autorun when any TF card or SD card is connected to my PC ?....Instead it shows 2 drive folders i.e.....  "xxxxx@gmail.com" .....&...... "wwww@gmail.com"....What are these 2 folders (which are NOT accessible ) and why is my external TF card or SD card drive not showing and why dont my PC autorun as soon as a particular drive is connected to my PC  ?

I thank you all.

Kind Regards

AK

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type

disk management

into the search box (yes spell it in American)

It will offer "Create & Format hard disk partitions", open it

Then screenshot what it says and post here (use the handles so that it shows everything)

cerebus

What do you mean by auto run?

Also we call tf cards microsd cards in the UK I'm assuming you're in the UK?

alykhalil1

facade said:

type

disk management

into the search box (yes spell it in American)

It will offer "Create & Format hard disk partitions", open it

Then screenshot what it says and post here (use the handles so that it shows everything)

tHANK YOU FOR YOUR REPLY BUT MY APOLOGIES THAT I AM NOT WELL VERSED WITH pc'S. (sorry about the capslock). The TF Card in subject has music (mp3) files to play in my car.  I have attached the screenshot. many thanks.

unforeseen

Best guess is that the TF card formatting is not understood by windows

cerebus

As you keep calling them tf cards (microsd) can I assume you bought it off amazon or eBay? 

If so there's a chance it's fake 

wongataa

facade said:

type

disk management

into the search box (yes spell it in American)

There is nothing Americanised with the spelling of Disk Management.  Disk is short for diskette, not a round thing called a disc.

alykhalil1

is there anything else i could do to save my information (music files-from 2010 up to now) on the TF card ?

400ixl

As in the music is currently on your hard disk and you want to copy it to the MicrosSD card? If so format the card so that the OS can read and write to it.

If you mean your music is already on the MicroSD card then formatting is what you don't want to do. Does the car see the mp3 files?

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wongataa said:

facade said:

type

disk management

into the search box (yes spell it in American)

There is nothing Americanised with the spelling of Disk Management.  Disk is short for diskette, not a round thing called a disc.

You live & learn.

Magnetic storage = disk

Optical storage = disc

According to t'interweb British English uses disk, as you say as a contraction of diskette.

I suppose it is like a lot of words, the American spelling is actually the original English spelling from way before the USA existed, but British English changed the spelling due to the Frenchification of the language.

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alykhalil1 said:

facade said:

type

disk management

into the search box (yes spell it in American)

It will offer "Create & Format hard disk partitions", open it

Then screenshot what it says and post here (use the handles so that it shows everything)

tHANK YOU FOR YOUR REPLY BUT MY APOLOGIES THAT I AM NOT WELL VERSED WITH pc'S. (sorry about the capslock). The TF Card in subject has music (mp3) files to play in my car.  I have attached the screenshot. many thanks.

Thanks.

It is showing as an unrecognised file system.

This is a known problem with some FAT32 sd cards on windows 10 that Microsoft were unable to resolve.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/some-sd-cards-not-readable-on-windows-10/d2c2c6d7-f56c-40e3-af6d-334cbf8e90d3

If you need the mp3 files you need to get someone who uses Linux or Windows 7, XP etc. to copy them across to a usb drive, then you can try re-formatting the TF card using Win 10 (which should work), or buy a new one that Windows 10 likes and then copy them back on.