sd card back to full 16gb in windows??

hi there,

i installed DEBIAN to a SD card, and now i need the SD card for a digital cam. how do i format the SD card so windows sees it as a 16gb and not 94mb ??

cheers

pholynyk over 13 years ago

Most cameras have a menu selection for reformatting a card. That's the easiest, if you can find the right menu. Otherwise Windows will be happy to reformat the card - I just can't remember how to use Windows, sorry.
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jlcarender over 13 years ago

Sometimes windows does not format correctly when you have an sd card rormated for linux so download hp usb format tool and it will do the job
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Former Member over 13 years ago

You may need to use disk part to delete all the partitions, befor formating the device.
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cullimore over 13 years ago in reply to Former Member

Thanks, i`ll try them.
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Former Member over 13 years ago

I believe Debian will use something like ext4 for it's disk file format - This will mean that Windows cannot read the disk as it can only read FAT, FAT32, NTFS

If you cannot get it format completely with any utilities you have then you may need to get hold an application that can read / write / format ext* file formats, and other Linux file formats.
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