Additionally I have tried to both refresh disk manager and restart, did not help
Windows 11 does not recognize micro SD card, not allowing image puller to find it
I am trying to pull an image from a microSD card used for an ubuntu board computer. The microSD card is 64gb. Back in windows 10 (which I used to do this yesterday before I updated to 11), when I plugged in the SD windows would pop up warnings about the many partitions on the SD not being formatted correctly, then assign each partition on the SD a Letter: label to access them in the file explorer. I could then use win32 disk imager to select E: and pull the image off the card onto my PC. After updating to windows 11 though, the OS does not recognize the SD card at all. It labels it as "Mass storage device" in both the disk manager and the device manager, but does not assign it a way to be accessible in the file explorer. This means that win32 disk imager can no longer find the SD card and I cannot pull the image. I have already tried using disk manager to make the SD a disk, but that throws an error. Is there some other way to go about this in windows 11 or is there something I need to do to fix this?
File explorer:
Disk Manager Error when trying to change letter on partition:
Device manager:
Windows for home | Windows 11 | Devices and drivers
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Anonymous
2021-12-05T06:18:56+00:00 -
Sumit D - IA 154.9K Reputation points Independent Advisor
2021-12-05T06:54:10+00:00 Hi Payday02,
I am Sumit here to assist you with this question.
Did you try removing the SD card drivers?
Remove the driver completely:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/for...
Afterwards, run Windows update or download the driver from the manufacturer and see if the issue is resolved.
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Anonymous
2021-12-05T07:34:49+00:00 Hi Sumit,
Reinstalling the device drivers did not fix it, I am also up to date on windows updates
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Sumit D - IA 154.9K Reputation points Independent Advisor
2021-12-05T12:09:31+00:00 Thanks. I do not think there was a change with respect to mass storage devices. I think that the same is a bug.
Are the chipset drivers updated too?
Try Resetting BIOS settings as well.
The last recommendation would be to rollback to Windows 10, which you can do within 10 days of installation.
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Anonymous
2021-12-05T23:51:07+00:00 Hi,
Good to know about rolling back. I may do that for now and move back to windows 11 later. I will try resetting the BIOS but if I don't post again, that did not fix the issue either. Thank you for your help.