SD Card error

[FoulOnWhite]

I formated my 128gb micro SD card with GUI format and now getting this problem. The card does not show in windows as there is no drive letter, but shows in disk management as healthy. I cannot format it in windows as you see on the pic, or change/add a drive letter as you see in other pic. Any way i can recover this SD card?
thx

If it is in the wrong place, feel free to move it

 

[SPDIF]

Use GParted to remove all partitions left and make a new partition with same program. Windows only can do some basic things. Works a breeze with anything.

 

[GerKNG]

Open the terminal as admin type diskpart and then list disk
Check that you pick the correct one, type select disk #(number of the drive), enter and then type clean.

 

[SPDIF]

Be carefully with disk-part if you use this, you have no visual of what you are doing or selecting, you type commands blindly and what you have done can't be undone!

 

[GerKNG]

Be carefully with disk-part if you use this, you have no visual of what you are doing or selecting, you type commands blindly and what you have done can't be undone!

you see exactly what you're doing.
you get a list of the connected drives incl. the capacity.
you see which one you selected and what happened after typing in the clean command.

 

[FoulOnWhite]

Thx guys i will try what you have suggested

Got this on disk part

Fixed it. Stuck it in my spare android phone, and it said it need formatting, which it did, now it works in windows fine.

Why can't windows do this?

 

[GerKNG]

did you try it a second time? i just had a Sandisk Extreme that spat out the same message until i did it two or three times.

 

[FoulOnWhite]

did you try it a second time? i just had a Sandisk Extreme that spat out the same message until i did it two or three times.

I tried it a few times, same as i tried windows disk management, which is weird, says could not assign a drive letter, then left it raw once. Android fixed it straight away with no problem, windows 11 is much more sophisticated and cannot do it. something wrong with that.

Is it because the phone is basically using Linux?

For anyone else with the same problem, stick the card in your phone to do it. Phone was a samsung galaxy A3(2017) btw.

Thx for your help anyway GerKNG

 

[GerKNG]

i use diskpart almost on a daily basis and i never encountered an issue like you had now.
at least it works now

 

[FoulOnWhite]

i use diskpart almost on a daily basis and i never encountered an issue like you had now.
at least it works now

I was trying to get it to work with my hacked ninty 2DS, but i think it only supports a max 64gb card.

 

[GerKNG]

cool project

 

[SPDIF]

With GParted no problems ever. We don't use anything else anymore it handles everything and a change to undo settings if you did make an error...

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

This reminds me of the dreaded false-write-protected error messages. (in my case, it was just a faulty drive, IIRC) It could be a warning sign of a counterfeit drive!

 

[FoulOnWhite]

This reminds me of the dreaded false-write-protected error messages. (in my case, it was just a faulty drive, IIRC) It could be a warning sign of a counterfeit drive!

I'm sure the mem card is ok, just probably some error with the 2ds setup not supporting the card but formatting it anyway. The phone fixed it straight away with no trouble and i have had it a while and never had a problem with it before.

 

[Calenhad]

Thx guys i will try what you have suggested

Got this on disk part
View attachment 329100


Fixed it. Stuck it in my spare android phone, and it said it need formatting, which it did, now it works in windows fine.

Why can't windows do this?

It does indeed look like your sdcard was flagged write only in Windows.

 

[FoulOnWhite]

It does indeed look like your sdcard was flagged write only in Windows.

Strange

It's definatly ok now after been initialized and formatted as exFAT in the android phone.

 

[Edwired]

All depends on the format windows can do exfat, fat32 and ntfs but android phone is picky about certain sd cards best to buy proper branded sd card not unbranded generic type which are prone to fail losing data in the process. How I know this people buying bottom of the barrel type for dirt cheap. Even with careless handling it can break it because I knew a friend who lost about 220gb worth of data in a blink of an eye by snapping it in the middle of the sd card that not including the fact he didn't back it up in the first place.
You can fix it in cmd by doing dskchk x: /f /r (x is the location path of the sd card).

 

[FoulOnWhite]

All depends on the format windows can do exfat, fat32 and ntfs but android phone is picky about certain sd cards best to buy proper branded sd card not unbranded generic type which are prone to fail losing data in the process. How I know this people buying bottom of the barrel type for dirt cheap. Even with careless handling it can break it because I knew a friend who lost about 220gb worth of data in a blink of an eye by snapping it in the middle of the sd card that not including the fact he didn't back it up in the first place.
You can fix it in cmd by doing dskchk x: /f /r (x is the location path of the sd card).

The card is a sandisk ultra

 

[jsfitz54]

@FoulOnWhite

This tool is great but can take a while.

HDDGURU: HDD LLF Low Level Format Tool

This freeware HDD Low Level Format utility can erase, Low-Level Format and re-certify a SATA, IDE, SAS, SCSI, SSD hard disk drive. Will also work with any USB and FIREWIRE external drive enclosures as well as SD, MMC, MemoryStick and CompactFlash media.

hddguru.com

 

[docnorth]

The card is a sandisk ultra View attachment 329265

Probably you could use acronis for WD to handle the disk on windows.