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ktate
ktate Posts: 114 Forumite
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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
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  • JJ_Egan
    JJ_Egan Posts: 20,281 Forumite
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    Format as what ??
    FAT 32 is the usual .
  • arciere
    arciere Posts: 1,354 Forumite
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    Normally that keeps happening if either the card (likely) or the reader (less likely) are faulty.
  • kwame41
    kwame41 Posts: 168 Forumite
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    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
    motorguy Posts: 22,473 Forumite
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    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
    esuhl Posts: 9,409 Forumite
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    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
    motorguy Posts: 22,473 Forumite
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    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
    ktate Posts: 114 Forumite
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    Thank you Monica hopefully I should be able to sort it with all the info you have given me many thanks
  • JJ_Egan
    JJ_Egan Posts: 20,281 Forumite
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    You do realise that was a spam post .
  • AndyPix
    AndyPix Posts: 4,847 Forumite
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    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
    Frozen_up_north Posts: 2,420 Forumite
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    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...
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