Monday, 18 March 2013

How to fix memory card formatting problems

Some times our Memory Cards
stop working after we have
formatted them from our Computer
and not from mobile. If you read
user manual of your Mobile you
will find a warning message asking
you not to format phone memory
of your mobile and memory card
from computer, you should use
mobile.
Memory Card use FAT16 (FAT) file
system and through your computer
you can format it into only FAT32
and NTFS file system and if you
format it with any of these two file
system then your memory card will
stop working in your mobile
phone.

The solution of this problem is to
format the Memory Card again
with FAT(FAT16) file system
through computer because your
mobile cant read it any more so
you cannot format it from your
Mobile.
To fix this issue follow the steps
given below.
To format your Memory Card with
FAT (FAT16) file system, follow
the steps given below:
1. Plug-in your Memory Card into
your computer.
2. Wait till computer detects the
Memory Card.
3. Now note down the Drive Letter
of your Memory Card.
Note: In this tutorial we will
assume that drive letter of your
Memory Card is H: but you should
replace it with actual drive letter of
your memory card.
4. Now run Command Prompt by
Typing CMD and hitting Enter in
Start>>Run or by typing CMD and
hitting Enter key after pressing
WinKEY+R.
Windows 7 and Vista users should
type CMD in Start’s Search Box
when Command Prompt appear,
right click on it and run as
administrator.
5. Once Command Prompt
launches, Type H: /fs:FAT and hit
enter.
Please note that in above tutorial
we assumed that H: is drive letter
of memory card but this could not
be same in your case so make sure
to replace H: with actual drive
letter of your Memory Card.
Also Please note that if you format
anything your data will be erased.
That’s it.
Once your Memory Card is
formatted, You can start using it
your Mobile.
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Comment.

1 comment:

  1. my tragedy is that i have a sandisk 4gb memory card but neither my pc nor my mobile device is recognizing it any more what could have happen please tell.

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