format SD card

Question

Windows cannot format sd card ?

Answer 1

Did you try formatting through Command Line using Disk Part?

https://www.groovypost.com/howto/format-local-d...

Also, make sure the SD card is not in lock mode.

Answer 2

Hi.

If you try to format what happens?

Go to windows explorer > navigate to your drive > right click and hit format and format as FAT32. Does anything happen?

If it still does not work you can try to use diskpart

Open up a command prompt as admin

type diskpart

type list disk

type select disk x (where x is the drive for the SD card

Type attributes disk clear readonly

type clean

Then finally type exit to exit and format the SD card again.

Answer 3

Hi KhaledBoghdady,

I am Wilfredo an Independent advisor 

follow the instructions of this link

 

https://www.easeus.com/partition-master/sd-card...

Note: This is a non-Microsoft website. The page appears to be providing accurate, safe information. Watch out for ads on the site that may advertise products frequently classified as a PUP (Potentially Unwanted Products). Thoroughly research any product advertised on the site before you decide to download and install it. 

I hope it helps you

Answer 4

Hi,

I have the same problem and tried your solution, and many more.  My micro sd card and all the files in it, seem stuck on read only. The card does not have a lock on it, so I did not set it this way.

I also tried to share the files with myself as an administrator giving me full control.  No change. All the files are irrevocably read only, so I cannot delete them nor reformat the drive.

I was reading in one forum that possibly this is the result of one Windows 10 update that messed up this thing.  I updated from windows 7 to 10 a while back, but I do not remember having this problem in the past.  Maybe someone has a solution... I hope

thanks

DH

The possible reasons that Windows cannot format SD card are a virus infection, write-protection, bad sectors, and physical damage. You can first try to format it via diskpart. 

you can format the SD card with the following commands:

dispart

List disk

Select disk n (n represents the disk number listed that you want to format)

Clean (this command will delete all the data on the selected disk)

Create partition primary

Format FS=FAT32

Assign letter X: (X: represent the drive letter for the USB drive, you can change it based on your needs)

If the diskpart won't format SD card, then you should turn to a professional third party software. I recommend to use free AOMEI Partition Assistant. It provides many provides many useful features regarding partition and disk management, such as Wipe Partition, Resize Partition, Convert disks between MBR and GPT without data loss, and Partition Recovery. If the format failed because of bad sectors, AOMEI Partition Assistant will fix the bad sectors and format the drive for you. Also, it can remove write protection on SD card. The advanced version of AOMEI Partition allows you to format SD card using CMD.