I have a kingston 1gb micro sd card that i need to format for use with my cd turntables. I have inserted the card into the built in card reader on my laptop and let windows run its "need to format" process but i keep getting the same error.
"Windows was unable to complete the format"
I have checked my drivers, the lock on the card, and pretty much anything else that i could think of and still no joy.
I'm no expert and i've never done anything like this before so any advice would be incredibly helpful.
Chris
Try going into windows explorer, right click on the drive. select format and then select quick format. Does that work?
Okay, let's try this... It's a utility to format an HP flash drive, but it should work with kingston as well.
http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/fil...
Let me know if this works.
Weird! Have you tried formatting it from a command prompt?
click on start
click on run
type cmd and press enter
this will give you a dos prompt (command prompt)
type format (and the drive letter of the device followed by a :) /x
example format d: /x and press enter (d: being the drive letter of the flash drive) the /x is an additional command that forces the drive to dismount if it is mounted.
Let me know if this works.
you need to format it in ntfs.... try...
format d: /x /c
Well, let's run a chkdsk on the drive and see if that fixes it.
go to a command prompt and type the following...
chkdsk d: (or whatever the drive letter is) /x /r [enter]
can you initialize the drive in disk manager?
Well... There's one other thing you can do... download slax which is a linux boot disk. It will be able to read RAW file structures. This way you should be able to get a format on it through Slax, or at the very leat get the data off of it. Sounds like it got corrupted BIG time! Don't know if it's worth the time and effort to fix it. Especially since we're only talking a GB here.
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No. I have already tried that. I just takes its time before it says "unable to format". Good shout though :)
Thanks for the link but no luck. I cant even open the file.
I installed it and when it finished, tryed opening it to be told that i need the admins permission. I am the admin of this pc though?
Managed to open the program but i cant select any of the options?
No i haven't. How would i go about doing this?
Got a lot closer this rime :)
Basically got this:
The type of the file system is RAW
The new file system is FAT
Verifying 0M
The specific cluster size is too big for FAT
What are clusters? Is there anyway to change them?
"The volume does not contain a recognized file system.
Please make sure that all required file system drivers are loaded and that the volume is not corrupted."
Take it this means that the card is fucked?
Thanks for being patient with me on this :)
"chkdsk is not available for RAW drives"
I'm guessing i have to try and convert it from RAW to NTFS?
It says "This device cannot start (Code 10) if i double click the drive in disk manager.
Thanks for your help though! :) Even though its not solved i still appreciate the help. Thumbs up for you!
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