Originally Posted by emuX

It formats to Ext3/4 though so I can't plug the card straight into my Windows PC

Try this advice on mounting EXT filesystems on Windows

Originally Posted by marcyspark

Hi,

I have tried that Fat32formatter on mine.

I was able to delete the NTFS partition. When I then initiated the 64gb card it looked set to go.

I then clicked on format and got the message that it could not do it....

Dodgy card?

Anybody else have any pointers here.

I fixed my problem! I plugged it into my MacBook Pro and within minutes problem solved.

Carried out a read and write test using SD tools. Fab!


Now I'm gonna try and format ext3 or ext4. I'll check back shortly.

Sent from my GT-N7000

Right then - I am using Mint Linux via VMware on my mac. I successfully formatted to ext3 but the Note would not recognise it.

The same occurred with ext4.

From what I can gather ext3 is not supported by the kernel. Is ext4? and if so, can the SD Card be set up with ext4?

The speed gains are apparently huge when compared to FAT.

It has to be fat32 to work why just use it

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Originally Posted by DOGSofDOOM

It has to be fat32 to work why just use it

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Well , just for efficiency and speed - and to try to demonstrate the difference between fat32 and ext4 I guess.

ext4 is greatly superior to fat32 in every way. Fat32 is exactly that.... "Fat" and getting on a bit (although 32 is not that old really)

But thank you for your input, of course. If I find a way of getting ext3 or 4 working, I'll let ya know.

B.R.

Lol! Am just in the same atm...

Windows doesn't format it, insists in extFAT.
Linux only wants to format 32GB.
Note formats it flawlessly in a few seconds

However:

I do have a hard time copying files over... last I tried (with the card plugged in on an usb adaptor to the pc) it copied until reaching the last 16GB, then it failed. So far so good. The card showed 16GB available, but couldn't put anything on it anymore.

Thus I went and deleted everything (yes, hidden files, too). And guess what? It still showed 16GB used...

This thing is weird... Doing a final try now, with the card in the phone, mounted on the pc, copying over... I'll report back in a few hours, ugh...

Originally Posted by pb1379

Lol! Am just in the same atm...

Windows doesn't format it, insists in extFAT.
Linux only wants to format 32GB.
Note formats it flawlessly in a few seconds

However:

I do have a hard time copying files over... last I tried (with the card plugged in on an usb adaptor to the pc) it copied until reaching the last 16GB, then it failed. So far so good. The card showed 16GB available, but couldn't put anything on it anymore.

Thus I went and deleted everything (yes, hidden files, too). And guess what? It still showed 16GB used...

This thing is weird... Doing a final try now, with the card in the phone, mounted on the pc, copying over... I'll report back in a few hours, ugh...

You might want to try disktool in linux - it worked first time on mine when I deleted all of the partition tables etc. It then set the partition table as fat32 LBA (I used to know what logical block addressing was about) as I think that LBA overcomes the 32gig limit.

The alternative is that perhaps you have a 32gig rebadged and set up to give the appearance of a 64? It used to happen when the 32gigs were expensive... lots of fakers out there.

Originally Posted by JolyonS

Try this advice on mounting EXT filesystems on Windows

Thanks, but although that works well with ext3 they suggest you only mount as read only on ext4, and having finally got 50GB+ on my card I don't fancy corrupting it all!

Originally Posted by marcyspark

Hi,

I have tried that Fat32formatter on mine.

I was able to delete the NTFS partition. When I then initiated the 64gb card it looked set to go.

I then clicked on format and got the message that it could not do it....

Dodgy card?

Anybody else have any pointers here.

Don't know what version of Fat32Fmt you have but the older ones only used to work if you mounted the card/HDD to F:\.

Even then it only worked up to the normal Fat32 32GB limit on the drives I have managed to format (even though they 'appeared' to format to 250GB, etc correctly)

Your best bet is to see if there are custom format tools on the Sandisk website. I've been meaning to but haven't got around to it.

hey guys

is this right what im reading here???, im confused because the specs say the note can handle 32gig max, is 64 gig deffo working and if so, can someone advice me if it has to be a certain class or type, this is really good news.