Micro SD Card Formating

[The Silver Surfer]

I recently turned a micro SD card into a boot disk to root a tablet and now its done tried formatting it back in the usual way however it still states it is a boot disk of only 3.75 gb when it is in fact a 32gb card!
Silly to use one so big really but its all i had and if id fucked a 4gb id just bin it.

Has anyone got any idea how to sort it out or will it be corrupted?

 

[Damocles]

I suspect it will be fine. What you've probably done is made a partition of 4GB or there abouts and when you've formatted it you've actually just wiped the data inside the partition.

Go and download this:

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-par ... nager.html</a>

And see if you can delete the partition and create a new one at its maximum size.

 

[talkativesprout]

you should be able to confirm what Damocles has said by searching for disk management on a windows pc.

 

[The Silver Surfer]

OK great i'll give that a shot thanks for the advice, i'll report back when done.

 

[Damocles]

Excellent. Let us know either way please mate :)

 

[The Silver Surfer]

I deleted the 4gb partition which automatically amended the rest of the disk to the full size and applied the changes however this seemed to make the disk unrecognizable and thus unusable - probably because in my naivety I hadn't created the rest of the disk as a partition but just assumed the software would do!
Anyway, I thought I may as well carry out a surface test - all good and no bad sectors which had been my first worry.
Then created the new partition and applied the changes - would only go to a max of 29.8gb though which I thought was a bit strange - 2gb missing?? But thats only a little bug bear.
So all good in the end and I managed to become a bit more comfortable with and understand partitions better.

So thanks for the heads up Damocles!

 

[Skashion]

There is no two gigabytes missing. All disks have less space than their advertised size. This is because manufacturers use the decimal form of gigabyte. 1000^3 bytes, whereas computers use binary, 1024^3 bytes. For instance this means the one terabyte hard drives in my machine all read 931GB instead of 1,000.

 

[talkativesprout]

what him above says :)

screen shot of my 32 gig stick

 

[The Silver Surfer]

Yeah I knew but didn't realise how much!
2gb !? I remember my first phone only had 60mb memory!