format 64GB micro SD card to fat32

v8dreaming · Jul 25, 2012

I purchased a Sandisk 64GB micro SD card through Amazon. I got the card and put it in my phone and the phone said it was damaged. It wouldn't mount the SD card to format it. I tried to format it with my laptop, but it would not give the option for fat32.

I did a Google search and found this.

http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm

You have to use Dos commands, but it formats the SD card to fat32 in about 3 seconds. Needless to say, this has to be done on a Windows computer. Mine is running Vista.
BE CAREFUL! IF YOU AREN'T PAYING ATTENTION, YOU COULD FORMAT THE WRONG DRIVE AND MESS UP YOUR COMPUTER!

(If this is in the wrong place, please move to the correct forum.)

I'm sure most of you already know how to do this. I just figured I would post it for people that don't.

anomy13 · Jul 25, 2012

How much did u pay for it?

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v8dreaming · Jul 25, 2012

anomy13 said:
How much did u pay for it?

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The micro SD card? 60 bucks off of Amazon about a month ago. I thought the first one was defective so I sent it back. Just got the replacement today.

blchff04 · Jul 26, 2012

v8dreaming said:
The micro SD card? 60 bucks off of Amazon about a month ago. I thought the first one was defective so I sent it back. Just got the replacement today.

Was it the class 6 or the class 10 one? I got the class 10 64gb for like 75

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skyfolly · Jul 27, 2012

wow 64g, can save me loads of porn.........

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kabuk1 · Jul 27, 2012

If it won't format in the phone, it may be defective. I went through something similar, I ordered a 64gb class 6 card off Amazon a few months ago. It was made by "Komputerbay" & had good reviews, but would not format at all in my phone. Wouldn't even mount or anything. I sent it back & ordered a Sandisk, and it formatted in my phone right away with no problems.

v8dreaming · Jul 27, 2012

kabuk1 said:
If it won't format in the phone, it may be defective. I went through something similar, I ordered a 64gb class 6 card off Amazon a few months ago. It was made by "Komputerbay" & had good reviews, but would not format at all in my phone. Wouldn't even mount or anything. I sent it back & ordered a Sandisk, and it formatted in my phone right away with no problems.

It's not defective. I'm using it in my phone right now. I find it interesting that people are able to mount this card in their phone when, out of the box, it's in a format that the phone doesn't recognize. Also, without a workaround, you aren't supposed to be able to format anything over 32GB to fat32.
This is my understanding after reading up on it anyway.

v8dreaming · Jul 27, 2012

skyfolly said:
wow 64g, can save me loads of porn.........

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I have 55GB of music and we aren't allowed to use the wifi at work. Streaming music for 8 hours straight would kill my data plan.

new ion? · Jul 27, 2012

v8dreaming said:
I have 55GB of music and we aren't allowed to use the wifi at work. Streaming music for 8 hours straight would kill my data plan.

you can't use grooveshark at work?

v8dreaming · Jul 28, 2012

new ion? said:
you can't use grooveshark at work?

They password protected the wifi network. So, we aren't allowed to use it.
I could use grooveshark with my cell data, but I would go through my 5GB data plan in about a week.

new ion? · Jul 28, 2012

v8dreaming said:
They password protected the wifi network. So, we aren't allowed to use it.
I could use grooveshark with my cell data, but I would go through my 5GB data plan in about a week.

You have a computer workstation connected to the internet no?

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L_E_O · Jul 28, 2012

Jesus H! Thank you for this! I've been fighting this for about a week now since I started playing with CM10 on the S3. Tried 4 or 5 methods of formatting with various commands and apps, and the most I could get out of the card was 32 GB in FAT32.

There's also a gui version of the utility that worked when all other found the card unreadable. Took all of 10 seconds!

http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm

v8dreaming · Jul 29, 2012

new ion? said:
You have a computer workstation connected to the internet no?

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No I do not. I do not sit down to work. I am a diesel mechanic.

v8dreaming · Jul 29, 2012

L_E_O said:
Jesus H! Thank you for this! I've been fighting this for about a week now since I started playing with CM10 on the S3. Tried 4 or 5 methods of formatting with various commands and apps, and the most I could get out of the card was 32 GB in FAT32.

There's also a gui version of the utility that worked when all other found the card unreadable. Took all of 10 seconds!

http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm

Glad it worked for you also.

new ion? · Jul 29, 2012

v8dreaming said:
No I do not. I do not sit down to work. I am a diesel mechanic.

Never mind then lol. I'm glad to hear you work with your hands... I'm going to school for a desk job and half the time I wish I could be under some motor

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freduce · Oct 8, 2012

I thank v8dreaming for posting the link to Ridgecorp.
I downloaded their fat32 format tool, and now my Sandisk 64GB micro SDXC works with my 3year old Samsung Jet S8000!
more memory than a $1000,- iPhone FTW

thanks again!

05Warrior · Oct 29, 2012

For those of you having a problem with formatting your 64 gig card in FAT32 go here.

http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm

EDIT - LOL I just saw your post but here is the link.

dlads · Nov 3, 2012

05Warrior said:
For those of you having a problem with formatting your 64 gig card in FAT32 go here.

http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm

EDIT - LOL I just saw your post but here is the link.

I have followed the tutorial and have formatted it, but windows still reports a size of 27.4GB which would mean 32GB.

I have a class 10 64GB card, i can format it in exfat no problem, just not fat32.

Any ideas?

rdefranx · Nov 21, 2012

Just in case someone has this problem

I was trying to format my sandisk 64gb that was formatted in exfat but I was having an error message saying that the card was being used by another program but there was nothing using it. What I did was that I formatted it with windows 7 to NTFS and after it was done I used the program again and this time it works. To make sure I put my card in the phone and formatted it with the phone also. I tried to formatted it in the phone before and it was formatted but it stayed in exfat. I want it to be FAT32 because the clockworkmod recovery touch can't access the card formatted in exfat to make backup. Now I will try it with fat32 which they say it will work.

EasyE75 · Nov 21, 2012

Try to get another recovery like twrp, it let's you use your external sd.

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