< SD Clean
Revision as of 12:32, 12 December 2023 by Vanny1987 (talk | contribs) (Re-added disk management steps, as it confuses people when trying to format empty partitions. Also Windows prevents you from formatting the drive while windows is running, so edited the warning)
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
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Before beginning these steps, copy all of your SD card's contents to a folder on your computer. |
- Launch
diskpartby searching fordiskpartin the Windows search bar. - Once diskpart is active in the new Command Prompt window, type
list disk. - Find your SD card in the list of disks (hint: look for the size of your card), then type
select disk #, where # is the disk number of your SD card.
Disk 0 will always be your main windows drive, so you'd select any disk after it. - Type
list diskagain. You should now see a * next to your SD card. - Once you are absolutely sure that you have selected the right disk, type
clean, then typeconvert mbr. - Close the diskpart window, and search for
diskmgmt.mscin 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
new simple volume. - Click through all the prompts until you get to the one about formatting - there, select "FAT32" as the file system.
- If the SD card is over 32GB in size, instead, select exFAT and then format the SD card to FAT32.
- Once the format is complete, copy your data back onto the SD card.