Surface 3 with MicroSD

Question

So, I recently bought a Lexar 128GB High-Performance 633x microSDXC UHS-I 95mb/s memory card, for my Surface 3 (NOT a pro 3, to be clear) in order to expand my memory. Now, everything I've ever read everywhere, says that MicroSDXC cards should work in the memory card slot in the back of my surface, but yet, I can't get this one to work properly.

It shows up in file explorer, but won't properly read/write to it, says it had a hardware issue, can't create new folders on it, etc. I have formatted it, and it seems to have 2 options

• exFAT

or

• NTFS

tried both, same problems come up.

Please tell me I didn't waste my money on this because it wasn't cheap. ANYONE know how to fix this problem. Right now i'm using a SanDisk 32GB Ultra and it's working perfectly on my Surface 3.

Anyone got ANY ideas? i'd appreaciate it, thanks.

Answer 1

On Sun, 27 Dec 2015 07:52:56 +0000, dndmaster2015 wrote:

>>Right now i'm using a SanDisk 32GB Ultra and it's working perfectly on my Surface 3.

I can't get ANY 128GB cards to work on my Surface 3. Lexar, Samsung, Transcend,

PNY, Patriot. I can mount the cards but they disappear after hibernate or they

cause issues when heavy file I/O happens and stop working.

There are a couple of other threads about similar issues. Unfortunately, there

has been no official response from Microsoft. (I find it hard to believe that

every card I tried is out of spec.)

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Answer 2

huh, that's weird. Because I have read many threads before that state this should work just fine.

I'll have to do some more research, and try contacting Surface support again. But the funny thing is, I have a USB MicroSD Card Reader that came with it, and when it is in that, then plugged into my Surface USB, it can read the card just fine. That's the part that confuses me.

Answer 3

It SHOULD work, but doesn't. And yes, when plugged in to an external adapter and

into the USB port, these micro SD cards work just fine.

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Answer 4

I also have the same issue with my Samsung 128g card. I see that a 32g card works fine, has anyone tried a 64g?

Answer 5

On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 01:56:19 +0000, ButchCOPE wrote:

>>I also have the same issue with my Samsung 128g card. I see that a 32g card works fine, has anyone tried a 64g

64GB works fine for me.

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