[Q] How to format Android-encrypted sd card for use on other devices?

[-BoneZ-]

Not sure if this is the correct place, but I have a 256 GB Samsung Evo micro-sd card. Since newer versions of Android automatically encrypt everything, including the internal/external sd cards, I cannot use this card on any other device. I've tried Linux methods, I've tried Windows methods. I've tried the official sd card formatter. Nothing will allow me to use this sd card outside of an Android device. And I find that very enraging. I've spent HOURS today on several different computers, several different operating systems, etc., to get this damn sd card usable outside of an Android device, and I have not had any luck.

Is there a way to format this micro-sd card to be used on other devices like Windows, or is it locked to Android forever now that it has touched an Android phone?

 

[braveguy]

same in here... i have encrypted my 128G samsung evo plus sdcard on my former s7edge, however I forgot to decrypt the card before swapping the phone.
now I have an encryted card; which is full of files, I can see the file structure, file properties but none of the files can be opened.
I tried to format by diskpart/cleanall command; no success, I tried traditional formatting methods, no success.
I want to use my card by formatting it. please help...

 

[Christy2375]

STEP 1. Use Diskpart utility to wipe SD Card encryption
1) Press "Windows-R" and type "cmd" in the Run box (without the quotation mark);

2) Press "Enter" key to open a new command prompt window;

3) Click inside the command prompt window, and type "diskpart", then press "Enter" key to display volume information for all of the hard drives installed in the system;

4) Enter "select disk g" at the prompt (g is the disk number of the encrypted SD card);

5) Type "clean all" and then press "Enter" key.

After some minutes, Diskpart utility will finish wiping all data on the encrypted SD card. Now you can move on to the next step to format the card.

 

[@rafaelreis]

Please.

Has anyone managed to solve the problem?