- Insert the SD card to a card reader and connect it to computer USB. When Windows prompts formatting, click “Cancel” and check the “Properties”. Use the tools in the Properties directly – Start checking.
- To begin with, just connect your SanDisk SD card to your computer and launch the Recoverit Data Recovery application. From its home, you can select your SD card (under the External Devices section). Step 2: Start the data recovery process.
Run the SD Formatter Application 2. Select the drive letter for the SDHC/SDXC card and then select format.
Note: Make sure that you select the “FAT32” with 32 kilobytes of “Allocation unit size” for SD card up to 32GB for the file formatting your microSD. After formatting, simply re-insert the SD card into your device and turn it on. Follow the steps below to repair or reformat your SD card. Format your SD card. Back up your data. Connect your Android device to your PC and mount it as a disk drive (i.e. Mass storage mode). On your PC, open Computer or My Computer and find your SD card/removable drive.
SD Card Is Not Showing Full Capacity
'I bought a SanDisk micro SD card a year ago, and it's 8GB. This morning when I transferred some photos from the SD card to the other on my Windows 10 computer, to free up some space, later I check its property, it shows around ~500MB capacity. That's not true. What happened? It should be as the original 8GB I think.'
Typical reasons:
As far as we concerned, the issue of SD card showing the wrong size mainly owes to three aspects.
- 1. Cheap and faulty SD card bought from dishonest vendors
- 2. Incompatible with card readers or host devices
- 3. Infected by computer viruses
How to Restore SD Card to Full Size
When you exclude the causes of the mentioned incompatibility, to restore the SD card to its full size for a normal working state, you need to perform a quick format.
There are some good SD card formatting tools that are free to use on Windows 10/8.1/8/7. Pick up a handy one you prefer.
- Warning
- As formatting SD card will erase data on it, make sure that you have created a backup (refer to how to back up SD card before formatting). Otherwise, you can only use EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard to recover data from the formatted SD card.
Method 1. Disk Management
Step 1: Right-click This PC/My Computer > Manage.
Step 2: Select Disk Management under Device Manager, find and right-click on SD card and select Format..
Step 3: Rename and reset the file system of SD card to NTFS or FAT32 as your need, follow the onscreen guidelines to complete the format process.
After this, you'll regain all the storage size of your SD card and you can use it for storing and saving files and data again then.
Method 2. EaseUS disk formatting software
This is third-party free partition software, so it requires you to download and install on your computer, and then follow the guide to format the SD card.
Step 1: Open EaseUS Partition Master. Find your SD card and right-click the partition you want to format and choose 'Format'.
Step 2: Set a new partition label, file system (NTFS/FAT32/EXT2/EXT3), and cluster size to the selected partition, then click 'OK'.
Step 3: Click 'OK' on the pop-up window to continue.
Step 4: Click the 'Execute Operation' button on the toolbar, then click 'Apply' to start formatting your SD card.
Method 3. DiskPart command line
Step 1: Type cmd in the search box in Windows 10 and then you'll get the best match Command Prompt. Right-click on it and choose 'Run as administrator'.
Step 2: In the command prompt, type diskpart and press 'Enter'.
Step 3: Type list disk to list all the available drives and press 'Enter'.
Step 4: Type select disk + disk number ( for example, select disk 0) to select the SD card you want to format and press Enter.
Step 5: Type clean to clean the SD card you have selected and press 'Enter'.
Step 6: Type create partition primary to create a partition on the cleaned SD card and press 'Enter':
Step 7: Type format fs=ntfs (or format fs=exfat) and press 'Enter' to format the drive with NTFS or exFAT.
Step 8: Type assign letter=drive letter (for example, assign letter=E) to assign a drive letter and press 'Enter'.
How to Recover Data from Formatted SD Card
Disk formatting should be taken very carefully as we addressed many times, it's going to wipe all data out, leaving you a blank SD card in the end.
With no backup at hand, at the same time, lost data after formatting. Calm down for a second. Now try to download EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard and follow the guide to perform SD card formatted data recovery.
Step 1. Run SD card recovery software and scan the card.
Launch EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard on your PC and select your SD card. Then click 'Scan' to start finding lost data on your SD card.
Step 2. Check found SD card data.
After the scanning process, you can click 'Filter' to quickly find wanted files.
Step 3. Restore SD card data.
You can check and preview found files by double-clicking each one of them. Then click Recover to save found SD card files to a secure location on your PC or external storage.
SD Card Becomes RAW and Windows Asks to Format It
My SD card shows that there is a RAW file system on my camera. When I insert it to my laptop, an error message pops up saying 'Micro sd card is not formatted, do you want to format it now?' But the thing is I don't want to lose my photos on the SD card. How can I convert RAW to NTFS or fat 32 without losing SD card files?
Here's a video tutorial on converting the RAW file system to NTFS and how to recover data from a RAW system. Watch the guide and fix your RAW SD card.
SD cards are a popular storage device which is commonly used in digital cameras, mobile phones, and camcorders. Sometimes the card becomes RAW and inaccessible due to certain reasons: How to play roblox on a school computer.
- human mistakes
- system errors
- unexpected disasters
When you are faced with this error, Windows often asks you to format your devices. But this operation causes data loss too. How to format the RAW drive and keep your data safe. Here is the solution: recover data from the RAW SD card. Then format the SD card.
Part 1. Restore Data from RAW/Inaccessible SD card
The hard drive which has not been formatted by the NT file system, such as FAT and NTFS, is called RAW hard drive. When your drive becomes RAW, you cannot access it. Meanwhile, its capacity used space, and unused space will all be shown as 'zero'. That is to say, all data originally saved in that “RAW” disk are lost. You can neither see them nor transfer them to a safe place for further use.
But a third-party data recovery program can access this RAW drive and get back data before formatting. EaseUS disk data recovery software is an ideal choice for recovering RAW drive data. It's fully compatible with all Windows and MacOS. What's more, it allows users to restore data from SD card, USB drive, HDD, etc. The process just takes a few simple steps.
Step 1. Run SD card recovery software and scan the card.
Launch EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard on your PC and select your SD card. Then click 'Scan' to start finding lost data on your SD card.
Step 2. Check found SD card data.
After the scanning process, you can click 'Filter' to quickly find wanted files.
Step 3. Restore SD card data.
You can check and preview found files by double-clicking each one of them. Then click Recover to save found SD card files to a secure location on your PC or external storage.
You may need further help for tough data loss situations like format errors, RAW disk, partition loss, repartition failures and system boot error. Consult with EaseUS Data Recovery Experts to retrieve lost data in time.
Part 2. Format the RAW SD Card Without Losing Data
After restoring data from RAW SD card, you can now format the RAW SD card to NTFS or FAT32 without losing data:
1. Manually format your SD card
Step 1: Insert your SD card into a card reader and connect the card reader to your computer.
Step 2: Right-click 'This PC', choose 'Manage', enter 'Disk Management'.
Step 3: Locate and right-click on your SD card, choose 'Format'.
Step 4: Click 'Yes' to continue, set a new label, file system - exFAT, FAT32 or NTFS to the card. Then click 'OK' to format your SD card.
2. Format your SD card with software
Format E Drive Sd Card
Here, we recommend a third-party SD card formatting tool. It is totally free for SD card formatting. What's more, it is pretty easy and fast. To format SD card in Windows 10 and all other operating systems, simply download and install the free partition manager on PC.
Details: How to format an SD Card
Part 3. Back Up Files to Protect Your Data
Take preventive measures before anything happens to you. If you have a backup of your SD card, you don't have to worry about the data loss problem. And backup can be one of the best ways to prevent data loss.
How To Reformat A Sandisk Sd Card
To back up files in advance, you need free file backup software. Here, EaseUS Todo Backup is my suggestion. With it, you can create a file backup. And you can enjoy more useful features during the process. You can set a schedule to back up files daily, weekly, or monthly. Besides, you can enjoy other features like disk clone, partition clone or system clone, and more.
Sandisk Sd Card Formatter
Details: How to Back Up Files