How to format the sd card?
I think in FAT32, but what kind of Allocation unit size?
I have a sd 8Gb Class 4 and did format it quick in 32 kilobytes.
Someone has a better solution!?
Thx
Bobbe
my two cents
I use FAT32 and "default size" (as that is my only option) and do a full format not just a quick format and I never have a problem.
tobiascrystal said:
I use FAT32 and "default size" (as that is my only option) and do a full format not just a quick format and I never have a problem.
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thanks for the quick response!
I did the same as you told me, and it works good!
Greets,
Bobbe
Glad I could help
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Hi guys
My 2GB Mini SD card is not working. I have a Trinity - Orange SPV M700, I wonder if anyone could tell me how to I fromat it and which FAT system to use?
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I did try to use File explorer and looked everywhere in the Settings section.
I am thinking, maybe I need to use my card reader in the computer or do I have to buy a 3rd party program to do this?
Any idea
Thanks
Using the cardreader in your computer is fine. Use the FAT format, not FAT32.
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Using the cardreader in your computer is fine. Use the FAT format, not FAT32.
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Why not FAT32? I've been using a 4gb miniSD fromatted in FAT32 for months without a problem.
If You don't have a card reader or an adaptor for the Micro-SD You can do it via wm5 storage. FAT32 should be better than FAT.
I also had problem with SD card (2Gb). Then I used one program for formating Panasonic SDformatter an now I don't have problems anymore.
Link: http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/sd/download/sd_formatter.html
Try with this program.
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As you may know, the SD specifications are not open but must be licensed and are protected by NDA's. Therefore I pesonally can't say for sure whether or not FAT32 is within the SDA 1.0/1.1 standard, but I would guess that it's not.
It's true that using FAT32 seems to work with most cards and controllers in the PPC world, but apart from eliminating the 512 files limit, I don't really see any advantage over FAT.
FAT32 is not a 'high performance' filesystem, so in terms of read/write speed it doesn't give you anything compared to FAT.
If you use a 4GB non compliant card, then of course you must use FAT32, since FAT only allows for 2GB.
So in short, unless you can't live with the 512 limit, I don't see that FAT32 will give you anything over FAT, and when you use FAT, you are sure to be within the standard.
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...but apart from eliminating the 512 files limit, I don't really see any advantage over FAT...
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Thanx for nice info, if that's true, FAT32 is the only option user may have when formating card, this limit is a way to small !
banesi said:
Thanx for nice info, if that's true, FAT32 is the only option user may have when formating card, this limit is a way to small !
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Please note that 512 is not the limit of the total number of files that can be stored on the card, it is the max. number of entries in the root directory.
The max. number of files that can be stored on a FAT filesystem is 65517.
thank you for clarification, is there a way I can already check in what format my card is formated?
banesi said:
thank you for clarification, is there a way I can already check in what format my card is formated?
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If it hasn't been reformatted since it left the factory, then I think it's safe to assume that it's FAT formatted.
If you want to check, then put it in a card reader and look at its properties (assuming your PC is running Windows).
i'm using Windows XP, but in my computer my pda is listed as a windows mobile phone and if right click the storage card, there's no option to format it...what should i do ?
thanks
i want to format my mmc
well which is the best option and format
NTSC or FAT32
and also what must be the allocation size unit?
moin786 said:
i want to format my mmc
well which is the best option and format
NTSC or FAT32
and also what must be the allocation size unit?
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It needs to be FAT32. Just accept the default value for all other options. As far as I'm aware NTFS is only for NT based OSs (WinNT & XP onwards).
Hope this helps
Hi all thanks for any previous help I now have android on my sd. I have a small problem when I connect to usb lead that my phone shows as a drive but is greyed out can't access it? any ideas.
it's ok I sorted it.
How did you fix your problem as I can't access my phone through USB either.
Have the same problem.
Apparently the drive letter in Windows is attached to Ext2 partition and not FAT32.
I can't change the letters in Windows and can't activate FAT32 partition.
Any ideas?
It's interesting to see that I'm not the only one who's got the same problem.
@dindia2 How did you know that the partition that it was attached to was FAT32 and not EXT2 (I take it that's the main internal partition that you're referring to?)
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It's interesting to see that I'm not the only one who's got the same problem.
@dindia2 How did you know that the partition that it was attached to was FAT32 and not EXT2 (I take it that's the main internal partition that you're referring to?)
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That's exactly the problem - in Windows EXT2 was attached - i figured that out when I tried to format it - it was only 1.5GB - the size of EXT2
I eventually used xRecovery to format it to 2GB ext2, 54MB swap and the rest of 32GB for fat 32
Sorry for delay, Danny
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That's exactly the problem - in Windows EXT2 was attached - i figured that out when I tried to format it - it was only 1.5GB - the size of EXT2
I eventually used xRecovery to format it to 2GB ext2, 54MB swap and the rest of 32GB for fat 32
Sorry for delay, Danny
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So I take it the only way to fix this problem is to format the phone itself? If so, that sucks!
Ok, android is supposed to be just fine with Ext and NTFS right?
Well i've got S4, kitkat 4.4.2 and 64GB original super fast microsd card and guess what, i formatted it first Ext4 then NTFS because i needed more than 4GB files and for both it says "SD card is blank or has unsupported filesystem."
both times formatted under linux desktop PC
the default formatting from the phone seems to be either FAT or exfat but files over 4GB can't be written. (exfat is supposed to do over 4gb right?)
So, what i'm doing wrong?
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Ok, android is supposed to be just fine with Ext and NTFS right?
Well i've got S4, kitkat 4.4.2 and 64GB original super fast microsd card and guess what, i formatted it first Ext4 then NTFS because i needed more than 4GB files and for both it says "SD card is blank or has unsupported filesystem."
both times formatted under linux desktop PC
the default formatting from the phone seems to be either FAT or exfat but files over 4GB can't be written. (exfat is supposed to do over 4gb right?)
So, what i'm doing wrong?
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Official Galaxy S4 doesnt support NTFS (not sure about Ext4). but there are some custom kernels that can deal with NTFS.
I found this on wikipedia:
exFat advantages: File size limit of 16 EiB–1 byte (limited by volume size), raised from 4 GiB−1 byte in a standard FAT32 filesystem.
so I guess yes it can handle files more than 4GBs, I haven't tried it myself.
Use the official SD formatter tool, it formats cards with 64 GB and larger using the exfat system.
just google: official SD formatter
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Official Galaxy S4 doesnt support NTFS (not sure about Ext4). but there are some custom kernels that can deal with NTFS.
I found this on wikipedia:
exFat advantages: File size limit of 16 EiB–1 byte (limited by volume size), raised from 4 GiB−1 byte in a standard FAT32 filesystem.
so I guess yes it can handle files more than 4GBs, I haven't tried it myself.
Use the official SD formatter tool, it formats cards with 64 GB and larger using the exfat system.
just google: official SD formatter
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With the build in formatting tool is what I use to format it, but then I can't write a 30GB file
in the file size limit you mention " File size limit of 16 EiB–1 byte" what's EiB?
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So, what i'm doing wrong?
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If it's a cheap and therefor most probably fake SD card this can also be a problem. Most cheap 64GB cards do not have the advertized capacity.
Fking1 said:
what's EiB?
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Eib is Exabyte = a million terabyte
Pfeffernuss said:
If it's a cheap and therefor most probably fake SD card this can also be a problem. Most cheap 64GB cards do not have the advertized capacity.
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nah, it's expensive and tested that it has the actual GBs
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...and tested that it has the actual GBs
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How?
Pfeffernuss said:
How?
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by running an sd card tester app from the market, 2 of them actually
it's real card, i've had fakes before
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by running an sd card tester app from the market, 2 of them actually
it's real card, i've had fakes before
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I Always format my SD cards using Minitool (PC app). Never missed a beat.
If this doesn't work I still think it's a fake SD-card
well it's not, thanks for getting the thread in the wrong direction though!
so does the default bult-in android formatting do FAT or exFAT? It doesn't seem to be possible to tell from the phone?
So, seems like the only way forward is to format it in exFAT?
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well it's not, thanks for getting the thread in the wrong direction though!
so does the default bult-in android formatting do FAT or exFAT? It doesn't seem to be possible to tell from the phone?
So, seems like the only way forward is to format it in exFAT?
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I am pretty sure it will only format in the style it was originally eg. Original setup of fat32 it will format fat32, if EXfat it will format EXfat.
Ext,1, 2, 3, 4 are all native to android (Linux) so ext4 shouldn't be an issue.
When I formatted my 64Gb card sd formatter did not format it to EXfat I had to do it manually. Please not that windows Xp does not directly support EXfat you need to manually install a patch and then manually format the sd card via cmd window
You'll have to confirm the command but it's something like
Format x: /fs:exfat
This is what I had to do on my old Xp box to do the job.
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Oh btw ntfs is proprietary file system to micro$oft and technically it's closed source, but I read somewhere ages ago someone managed to hack something together that does work
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formatted it to exfat and it works now
so for anyone else that wonders here is the summary of what I found
the android on Samsung S4 reads only FAT and exFAT on the SD card.
NTFS and Ext4 it does NOT recognize.
by default it formats FAT
I had to format it exfat on a PC
works now, still haven't tried with files over 4GB but shouldn't be a problem
I have the Meizu M2 Note, and i have recently I bought a Samsung SDHC card 128GB.
When I first use it in my computer (with an USB adapter) i formatted it to be a NTFS (didn’t know back then that Android OS doesn’t support it), of course my phone didn’t recognise the card.
Then I formatted it to be an exFat file system and my phone couldn’t mount it either.
So I turn to use third-party softwares to turn it into FAT32 which failed as well, even tried to make partitions (4 of 32GB - FAT32) and I couldn’t do it with “Paragon” (it didn’t succeed formatting the other three partitions).
What can I do? my phone just won’t recognise my SD card!
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OnbekendV said:
Hi,
Are you using Windows? If yes, insert your SDHC card and format it to FAT32. If this doesn't work, you probably broke your SDHC card. But you said that you bought it recently, so I think that you still have guarantee. Good luck!
Regards,
OnbekendV
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Hey, first I want to thank you for your quick reply, but I can't format it to FAT32 without using third party software (only has two options: exFat and NTFS), and when I tried to format it with the third party software it didn't work as well.
It can't be broken because it works just fine in my computer.
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OnbekendV said:
Hi,
If you are using Windows, you don't need third-party software to format your SDHC card. Just insert it in your computer, since you have said that your computer recognised your SDHC card. Then open Windows Explorer -> This PC -> Right-click on your SDHC card -> Click on format -> Choose FAT32 -> Choose format. This should solve your problem. If this doesn't work, go to windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/convert-hard-disk-partition-fat32-format#1TC=windows-7 and follow these steps. Good luck.
Regards,
OnbekendV
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It gives me only two option when formatting : exFat and NTSF
Ori5800 said:
It gives me only two option when formatting : exFat and NTSF
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Download this tool (best partition manager for Windows): http://www.partitionwizard.com
Now select your SD Card and format the partition on it to ext4 and try on the phone.
If it does not work with ext4 try with ext3.
Remember that in that program when you make all the changes you want, you have to press the apply button.
If it still doesn't work try factory reseting (and backing up of course) and formating options ext4, ext3, exFAT, FAT32 in that order (they are from best to worst).
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janekmuric said:
Download this tool
(best partition manager for Windows):
Now select your SD Card and format the partition on it to ext4 and try on the phone.
If it does not work with ext4 try with ext3.
Remember that in that program when you make all the changes you want, you have to press the apply button.
If it still doesn't work try factory reseting (and backing up of course) and formating options ext4, ext3, exFAT, FAT32 in that order (they are from best to worst).
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Does Android support ext4? I know windows doesn't right?
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@Ori5800
Yes, android does support ext4.
@OnbekendV
The only reason I see to format in FAT32 is because Windows supports it. It is slower than ext4, holds smaller partition, name and any other size.
I would reccomend ext4.
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OnbekendV said:
Hi, @janekmuric Thanks for sharing this information. Looks like I've learned something new today .
Regards,
OnbekendV
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No problem. Hey, instead of writing a post saying thanks, you could use the thanks button! :silly:
Ori5800 said:
I have the Meizu M2 Note, and i have recently I bought a Samsung SDHC card 128GB.
When I first use it in my computer (with an USB adapter) i formatted it to be a NTFS (didn’t know back then that Android OS doesn’t support it), of course my phone didn’t recognise the card.
Then I formatted it to be an exFat file system and my phone couldn’t mount it either.
So I turn to use third-party softwares to turn it into FAT32 which failed as well, even tried to make partitions (4 of 32GB - FAT32) and I couldn’t do it with “Paragon” (it didn’t succeed formatting the other three partitions).
What can I do? my phone just won’t recognise my SD card!
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Hi Ori5800, how about your sd card, it read with meizu now? I have Meizu M2 Note too. Plan to buy 128 GB SDXC. Thanks