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Post by alexham36 on Sept 13, 2015 14:20:40 GMT
Hi Guys,
I am having problems finding how to format SDHC in Win7. It was previously used in Raspberry, which I gave away and kept the SDHC, which I want to use for other things. It is 4GB card and it has a 55.7MB primary partition and the rest is "Unallocated". Win7 reads only the primary partition and I have not found a way to format the unallocated space, nor to remove all partitions and format the whole card, which I would prefer. Normally, right click on the mouse brings up the format option, but not in this case.
Please help.
Alex
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Post by vikingken on Sept 13, 2015 18:47:09 GMT
With the card plugged in; Right Click "Computer," select "Manage" and then "Disk Management." From there you should be able to delete the whole thing, format it and give it a drive letter if you wish. Its the only way you can work on a drive in Windows, without a Windows drive letter.
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Post by alexham36 on Sept 13, 2015 20:33:08 GMT
That did not work vikingken. I see the partition in Disk Management, but I cannnot do anything with the partition I want to remove. And the format option does not come up for that partition. Any more ideas?
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Post by alexham36 on Sept 13, 2015 21:06:25 GMT
I am glad to report that the problem is now solved thanks to Puppy Linux and GParted. I think that it does not say much for Windows when I have to go into a simple Linux OS to perform a task that should take only seconds.
Thanks again just the same.
Alex
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Post by vikingken on Sept 13, 2015 22:34:33 GMT
Actually you have used Linux to sort out Linux Alex, Windows doesn't like Linux and I have always deleted before trying to format. Its quite a while since I bothered with Linux and when I did I normally used Paragon for all that type of work, it works with anything. Although after formatting with Paragon, I usually used Disk Management to allocate the drive letter. Windows didn't always recognise a Paragon drive letter, when using Paragon within Windows. Yet a drive letter was normally accpted if the work was done using a Paragon boot disk. Never did figure that one out, its the same bloody program.
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