SD Clean/Windows

This is an add-on section for completely recreating an SD card's filesystem using diskpart and Disk Management. This should only be done if formatting does not fix your issue or is not possible for some reason.

This page is for Windows users only. If you are not on Windows, see the Mac and/or Linux pages instead.

Instructions
 Launch  by searching for   in the Windows search bar Once diskpart is active in the new Command Prompt window, type  Find your SD card in the list of disks (hint: look for the size of your card), then type, where # is the disk number of your SD card  Type  again. You should now see a * next to your SD card Once you are absolutely sure that you have selected the right disk, type, then type   Close the diskpart window, and search for  in the windows search bar Once the disk management window loads, you should be able to see your SD card as a black 'unallocated' area in the bottom part of the window. You may have to scroll down the bottom part of the window to see it Right click on the black unallocated area and select </li> Click through all the prompts until the one about formatting - in that prompt, select "FAT32" or "exFAT" as the file system</li> If FAT32 was not an option in step 4, Reformat the SD card to FAT32.</li> Copy your data back onto your SD card.</li> </ol>