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Help! My sdcard cannot be recognised!

My GT540 won't recognise my SD card after during copying a file to the SD via PC the PC crashed, and now it won't recognise it! I can't mount USB either! It is either corrupted or it was also dropped during the PC crash, could the reader be broken? Any ideas to fix it?
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have you tried to format sd card on comp. ?
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slidingpimp said:
have you tried to format sd card on comp. ?
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I've bought a new one and formatted it, says blank when it has pic on it. About to try sdcard.org's SD formatter
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That didn't work and after a reflash (twice, first one crashed phone completely) it still says blank. It turns out that my sd reader on the phone (in the back is broken, as it has to be in a certain place to read it. I shall try and flash back to 2.1 and take it back to CPW

Quinny899 said:
That didn't work and after a reflash (twice, first one crashed phone completely) it still says blank. It turns out that my sd reader on the phone (in the back is broken, as it has to be in a certain place to read it. I shall try and flash back to 2.1 and take it back to CPW
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Not necessarily...
I had same problems (actually not in 2.3.3, and 2.3.4, then in older versions), and I was really crazy...i formatted my SD a million times, on a million different ways! The biggest stupidity is that I don't know what combination actually worked...
But I've noticed some things: never format, or copy larger amount of data from computer over the phones card reader! Put the card in PC-s card reader and use MiniTool Partition wizard, or something similar (I use Acronis Disk Director, and for me it's incomparably better then anything else), and then copy same data for your phone on that card (just that is not blank).
Another thing that might helped me (I'm not sure if it was coincidence, or it really helped): After format, I went first to recovery>mounts and storage>mount /sdcard(and mount /sd-ext if you have it). Then you can try mount USB storage in recovery and try to trasfer some data (to find out if it's really problem in phones card reader). If you transfer data successfully, reboot system and find out if you are pressing the thanks button, or throwing the phone directly into the wall!
(And have you tried to use another PC/card reader)
It's not scientifically nor empirically proved...but I don't know, you can try! I hope you'll succeed!

Thanks for your help but it turned out that the reader had a slightly bent joint. Bend it back and it works now!
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Thanks everyone!
Thank you everyone for your help! The method above didn't work for long, so I found that it was a combination of position of reader on chip (back of phone, just move the whole reader, BE CAREFUL), the pins (as above) and the SD itself. I found that it was sometimes telling the TRUTH (WHAT???) when it was saying "SD Card damaged", what you do is copy the files to a PC using a sd reader and then format it, then put it back in again. Worked for me, although I had to format before copying files, so it was good that I had backed up my sd to pc just 1/2 a day before it all went wrong.

16gb Micro Sd wont delete or add Items but I can open files but cant format the sd?

So I have this Issue I found my 16gb HD2(I no longer have the hd2) that's I guess corrupted I can view the files move them to my desktop but I cant format the SD, I tried my Nexus One, digital camera, Windows 7, Macbook,ubuntu, mini partition tool and testdisk with no results. I remember this issue happen when I tried to run android through SD maybe you guys know why. thanks

Some sd cards especially ones that have been bought on ebay or overseas have a memory hack in them. What happens is the sd card shows 16gb but in reality it may only have 6-10gb. The hack provides the sd card to show more space then is actually there. You can use it just fine with no problems at all but once you go over the actual memory it really has & not just shows you then get a slew of corrupted files on your sd card leaving it almost useless. This is only 1 example, others causes could be if you take an ad card out while you transferring files to it. In the end there is little you can do and what I would of suggested you've already tried. (minitool) this has helped me fix a card that I was transferring files when my power went out. This will probably not help but have you tried different ports on your computer? What happened when it was in you nexus?
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htccraze said:
Some sd cards especially ones that have been bought on ebay or overseas have a memory hack in them. What happens is the sd card shows 16gb but in reality it may only have 6-10gb. The hack provides the sd card to show more space then is actually there. You can use it just fine with no problems at all but once you go over the actual memory it really has & not just shows you then get a slew of corrupted files on your sd card leaving it almost useless. This is only 1 example, others causes could be if you take an ad card out while you transferring files to it. In the end there is little you can do and what I would of suggested you've already tried. (minitool) this has helped me fix a card that I was transferring files when my power went out. This will probably not help but have you tried different ports on your computer? What happened when it was in you nexus?
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Yeah I learn this lesson on my chinese 32gb lol but on my 16gb sd was actually the one that came with the hd2 so I know for a fact is legit. everytime I put it on my N1 it tries to format it and then a message pops out saying card unmounted. I also tried my good old nokia n82 which usually Nokias are really good at formatting corrupted cards it doesn't give me the choice of formatting the card. Im wondering of their some type of lock on the sd card.

there is a really small lock on the front of a sd card but none that i know of on a micro sd. did you use the minitool partition wizard or the data recovery program? if you only used the partitioning wizard i would try the minitool data recovery program found here.

Running mini tool this is what I get it wont fix it though https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/3-oc0r_Bbv5qrYncR3IzCZaCRbbB6vENK-AyJ2O_CkI?feat=directlink

running minitool data or minitool partitioner? it looks like minitool data if i remember correctly. yeah, it says "minitool found errors on disk but will not fix them because diskcheck was run without fix parameters." i would try it again but select "check and fix detected errors" see if that helps. if it dont help then i would suggest to wait for advise from someone a little more knowledgeable about this.

htccraze said:
running minitool data or minitool partitioner? it looks like minitool data if i remember correctly. yeah, it says "minitool found errors on disk but will not fix them because diskcheck was run without fix parameters." i would try it again but select "check and fix detected errors" see if that helps. if it dont help then i would suggest to wait for advise from someone a little more knowledgeable about this.
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I tried using both none of them cant format the SD card or at least make it usable.

josemedina1983 said:
I tried using both none of them cant format the SD card or at least make it usable.
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what about good ol' Check Disk from Windows Explorer?

Another program is SD Formatter 3.0.
Try it and play with the options.

SD formatter is pretty good i must say. Here is another one that might be of some use. I have a corrupted flash drive around somewhere so i'll try and find that. maybe I can play around with it to see what might work and report back. I would also take a look at this link as it provides some very useful information about sd cards. you can find that here, please make sure you read the section on "Formatting is required". This will explain why you may be running into problems along with what the cause might be.

Yea the same thing happened to me with my 8 gig card, i even tried formatting it at best buy and with a camera and still wouldn't format. So i just had to buy a new one.

[Q] how do i fix an unreadable sd card

i recently flashed thors 1.7 touch recovery and when i rebooted my sd card wouldnt mount so i tried inserting it into my computer and my computer would not recognize my sd card either does anyone know how i can fix this its a 16gb sd card and I'm not trying to spend another 40$ for another one but I am thinking this one is toast.....any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!!!!!

As far as I know, there is no way to recover them. Once they are dead, they are gone. You can find the 16gb ones now for under $20 though.

eweo911 said:
As far as I know, there is no way to recover them. Once they are dead, they are gone. You can find the 16gb ones now for under $20 though.
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yea i thought so thanks man

You could try reformatting it. If that doesn't work, it's most likely dead.
Jim

if its a cheap card you might be lost.. i buy pny cards they have a lifetime warranty.. I Think the reason they do this is because i have NEVER EVER had a bad one from them. They are a cheaper memory provider that is often over looked for there superior quality.. Of course some other brands are backed just as well..
If your tab phone or computer will not read it . well i do not think anyone can help you.

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if its a cheap card you might be lost.. i buy pny cards they have a lifetime warranty.. I Think the reason they do this is because i have NEVER EVER had a bad one from them. They are a cheaper memory provider that is often over looked for there superior quality.. Of course some other brands are backed just as well..
If your tab phone or computer will not read it . well i do not think anyone can help you.
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Yea its a 16 gb sandisk and I can't get it read in anything so I just went out and bought a new one but o well

Try Reformatting it through CWM recovery, then see if it mounts.

subnoize soulja said:
i recently flashed thors 1.7 touch recovery and when i rebooted my sd card wouldnt mount so i tried inserting it into my computer and my computer would not recognize my sd card either does anyone know how i can fix this its a 16gb sd card and I'm not trying to spend another 40$ for another one but I am thinking this one is toast.....any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!!!!!
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I don't know if that will work cause when I have it in my tablet and I go to install flash from zip there is nothing to choose from but I can give it a go but I doubt it will work I'll post back and let you know

Try this formatter with uSD to SD adapter.
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/

I have been able to recover photos from a corrupted SD card using the free version of this tool from Zero Assumption Recovery. Worth a try before you reformat.

My SD card was corrupted recently after my phone rebooted. All my photos and important data were recovered successfully after using TestDisk (developed by Christophe Grenier).
After recovering my files onto my laptop, I reformatted the SD card. I did it because the recovery process undeleted useless files.
Just do a Wiki search for TestDisk.
Note: As I am a newbie I'm not permitted to post the link.
HTC Desire
ROM: MIUI-XJ v2.2.10 (D2EXT X-PART)
Recovery: 4EXT Classic
Acer Iconia A500
ROM: civato-FLEXSTRIKER-R9.5

subnoize soulja said:
i recently flashed thors 1.7 touch recovery and when i rebooted my sd card wouldnt mount so i tried inserting it into my computer and my computer would not recognize my sd card either does anyone know how i can fix this its a 16gb sd card and I'm not trying to spend another 40$ for another one but I am thinking this one is toast.....any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!!!!!
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I've never ever had such a bad experience but I really don't think that the card is dead unless you pushed it hard and crack the chip.If you use a windows PC ,once you plug the card (make sure it is properly placed into the micro sd adapter) then nothing happens ,as you say (it could be auto mount turned off ) press the windows key + R and type diskmgmt.msc.
This will open the disk manager of windows OS and you will be able to see all attached devices e,g HDD partitions ,USB thumb drives ,sd card and so on.If it s still not visible try to plug the card reader into another USB port.As a rule windows always informs you once you plug any USB device.If the device is not responding it gives an error
good luck.

Not always true... I had an sd card that just died... Neither Android, linux or windows pc recognised it... Windows recognised the sd card reader was attached but "was empty, attach an sd card"... 16Gb card to be tossed...

If the card is truly unmountable/unreadable and you really need to get data off of it, you could also try the service at recoverfab.com . They start where most free data rescue and formatting software can no longer help.
David

You may recover data from corrupted SD card with special recovery tool, see this useful guide: corrupted sd card data recovery
hope this helps.

recoverfab.com
Hi,
I tried using all kinds of different zero assumption recovery software and sd card repair software but with no look. I thought I wouldn't be able to retrieve any of the pictures I had on my sd card. That is until I found a company called recoverfab.com, they've been able to restore the majority of the files I thought I'd lost forever. I would certainly recommend them to anyone who desperately needs files recovering from an sd card.

My SD Card had the same problem and this, all of a sudden it was unreadable! I tried every method under the sun including trying to access it through an arduino and using SPI which is the alternative way of communicating with the device. I found a company called RecoverFab who said they could read the data from the memory chip even if the erst of the card was dead! So in a last ditch attempt I sent it over to them and the day after they received it I got an email and they had recovered 100% of everything on the SD card! I have never been so happy as it was all the photos from my girlfriends 21st! Superb communication and service!

[GUIDE] How to format 64 GB microSD to FAT32 WITHOUT sd card reader.

I've recently figured out how to do this and it's pretty simple, but since there isn't a thread like this one yet, I might as well post a tutorial on how to do it and be of assistance to those of you who haven't figured it out yet.
1. Download and install the latest version of the app 'SGS3 Easy UMS'.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1711009
2. Download and install the free 'EaseUS Partition Master 9.1.1 Home Edition'.
http://download.cnet.com/EaseUS-Partition-Master-Home-Edition/3000-2248_4-10863346.html
3. Plug your phone into your computer with the SD card inside. Make sure the computer can recognize the phone is in MTP mode.
4. Open SGS3 Easy UMS and press 'UMS mode'. Your external SD card will now be recognized as a removable disk.
5. Open EaseUS Partition Master, select the removable disk and press 'Format'. Choose FAT32 as file system. Finally, press 'Apply'. Your SD has now been formatted to FAT32.
6. Go back to SGS3 Easy UMS and select 'Mount card'. Unplug the phone.
7. Restart your phone.
8. Enjoy!
PS: To be sure of your succes, you must use EaseUS Partition Master and nothing else. I tried Minitool Partition Wizard at first and it did not work.

I knew this already,
Btw sd card reader is very cheap, everyone has it.
Laptops have it inbuilt

Thanks. Good guide. Sometimes I just cannot find a card reader when I need it. This should solved my problem
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buggingme said:
I knew this already,
Btw sd card reader is very cheap, everyone has it.
Laptops have it inbuilt
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I know but i cheaped out on my custom pc by not getting one

Arsaw said:
Thanks. Good guide. Sometimes I just cannot find a card reader when I need it. This should solved my problem
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Your very welcome Glad I could help.

Joskezz said:
I've recently figured out how to do this and it's pretty simple, but since there isn't a thread like this one yet, I might as well post a tutorial on how to do it and be of assistance to those of you who haven't figured it out yet.
1. Download and install the latest version of the app 'SGS3 Easy UMS'.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1711009
2. Download and install the free 'EaseUS Partition Master 9.1.1 Home Edition'.
http://download.cnet.com/EaseUS-Partition-Master-Home-Edition/3000-2248_4-10863346.html
3. Plug your phone into your computer with the SD card inside. Make sure the computer can recognize the phone is in MTP mode.
4. Open SGS3 Easy UMS and press 'UMS mode'. Your external SD card will now be recognized as a removable disk.
5. Open EaseUS Partition Master, select the removable disk and press 'Format'. Choose FAT32 as file system. Finally, press 'Apply'. Your SD has now been formatted to FAT32.
6. Go back to SGS3 Easy UMS and select 'Mount card'. Unplug the phone.
7. Restart your phone.
8. Enjoy!
PS: To be sure of your succes, you must use EaseUS Partition Master and nothing else. I tried Minitool Partition Wizard at first and it did not work.
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Hey thanks. I'm going to give this a try as I have tried and failed formatting my card as a FAT32 that is workable with UMS mode it would work but never ever mount with the mass storage app. You're sure it mounts in mass storage mode right?
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Nice guide, but only necessary if you're one of the ones having trouble with your card on exFAT formatting.

SlimJ87D said:
Hey thanks. I'm going to give this a try as I have tried and failed formatting my card as a FAT32 that is workable with UMS mode it would work but never ever mount with the mass storage app. You're sure it mounts in mass storage mode right?
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Absolutely sure
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/844/pic2bi.png/ (Zoom in)
As you can see in the photo, my SD card is running as removable storage, with file system FAT32.

NZtechfreak said:
Nice guide, but only necessary if you're one of the ones having trouble with your card on exFAT formatting.
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Well it benefits those that like to play movies on their PS3, Samsung HDTVs, etc.
But I guess getting a MHL cable would solve that.
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NZtechfreak said:
Nice guide, but only necessary if you're one of the ones having trouble with your card on exFAT formatting.
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And also because only Sammy based Roms support the exFAT file system.

Joskezz said:
And also because only Sammy based Roms support the exFAT file system.
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Do you have a Ps3 or XBoX to connect it into to see if it works?
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Do you have a Ps3 or XBoX to connect it into to see if it works?
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I'm sorry, I do not, my ps3 just recently got the yellow light of death
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I'm gonna try it today with my girlfriends' brothers' xbox and get back to you.

This is not working for me. I get an error when pressing UMS mode. It tells me that it cannot find the path to my external SD card. Any Ideals?

I used this to easily format my 64gig micro to fat32
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm
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Saviour
I spent hours doing searches on XDA trying to find an app or other method since my sd card reader didn't want to work and then I came across this guide.
Absolutely amazing.
Thanks.

welll my microsd fried randomly today too (Lexar 32gb class 10) ... tried to do this method because I dont have a microsd reader... well didnt work out too well because it keeps saying "could not find location" to sd 1

I have Sandisk Ultra 64 GB microSDXC Class 10 UHS-1 which is exFAT formatted. The only problem I have is that Clockwork Mod will not mount it in recovery. My work around is to remove and replace the card with my old 32GB one which is FAT32 formatted.
* * * * * Will this procedure allow that (use with in recovery)?
Anyway there is an Amazon Black Friday weekend special for these for $35 delivered (with prime).
there is a warning / cautionary note which reads:
"Reformat into file system other than exFAT may cause instability"

Galaxy note 3 doesnt recognize my SD Card

Hello all,
I have been using Galaxy note 3 for the last 3 years or so, have rooted it, installed AOSP and stock ROMs (including the latest Note 7 ports) on it. So I have a fair understanding of how the phone works, and am able to work with errors on a very comfortable basis (sometimes, with help from other XDA members as well).
Now, here's where I am stuck. I was running a Note 7 port ROMs (Phronesis and Magma-NX), and also ran an AOSP ROM. Since last week, my phone has not been able to recognize my SD Card (I have two cards: one, a 32gb card, and the other a 128gb card) on either of the stock or AOSP ROMs. It says: Corrupted. So I begin to format the card (both of them) on the phone itself, and I keep getting this message when I try to format my SD Card via phone:
thread binder_7 gave up waiting for partitionPublic after 180000ms
The SD Cards format properly on my laptop. The end result is my phone doesn't recognize any memory cards, and I basically end up working with the internal storage of 32gb. I havent encountered this error before, and I have no clue about what to do. I have tried googling it, and Google gives me a result for partitionPrivate and not partitionPublic. I dont know if these are the same things or not, and in either case, I absolutely dont know
what to do.
Can anyone suggest/guide as to what should I do?

I had an issue where my phone wouldn't see an SD card unless it was given a name when attached to a PC, might be nothing to do with it but could be worth a try?
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I had an issue where my phone wouldn't see an SD card unless it was given a name when attached to a PC, might be nothing to do with it but could be worth a try?
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Sorry buddy, but didn't quite understand when you said" given it a name". How and what did you do to name your SD Card? I will definitely try anything to make it work

I have same problem and I never fix it. I follow so many guides from Google without luck, seems that my N3 decide to not read external memory any more.

Badbullet said:
I have same problem and I never fix it. I follow so many guides from Google without luck, seems that my N3 decide to not read external memory any more.
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Hey buddy, in that case, what did you do? Did you end up using a lot of cloud based storage on your note 3?

Shreyu said:
Hey buddy, in that case, what did you do? Did you end up using a lot of cloud based storage on your note 3?
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Yes, I use Google Photo app for my pictures and videos, Spotify 4 music, large files like Twrp and Titanium backups stored on external hard drive.

Badbullet said:
Yes, I use Google Photo app for my pictures and videos, Spotify 4 music, large files like Twrp and Titanium backups stored on external hard drive.
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I guess that is probably working good for you; do you have your photos and videos setup to be directly posted on the Cloud then?

Definitely, you have various options how to upload directly, with mobile plans, only with WiFi, only on charge.

Awesome, thanks buddy.. Did you try to have someone look up the SD Card slot to see if it was damaged or if it needed a replacement?

Shreyu said:
Hello all,
I have been using Galaxy note 3 for the last 3 years or so, have rooted it, installed AOSP and stock ROMs (including the latest Note 7 ports) on it. So I have a fair understanding of how the phone works, and am able to work with errors on a very comfortable basis (sometimes, with help from other XDA members as well).
Now, here's where I am stuck. I was running a Note 7 port ROMs (Phronesis and Magma-NX), and also ran an AOSP ROM. Since last week, my phone has not been able to recognize my SD Card (I have two cards: one, a 32gb card, and the other a 128gb card) on either of the stock or AOSP ROMs. It says: Corrupted. So I begin to format the card (both of them) on the phone itself, and I keep getting this message when I try to format my SD Card via phone:
thread binder_7 gave up waiting for partitionPublic after 180000ms
The SD Cards format properly on my laptop. The end result is my phone doesn't recognize any memory cards, and I basically end up working with the internal storage of 32gb. I havent encountered this error before, and I have no clue about what to do. I have tried googling it, and Google gives me a result for partitionPrivate and not partitionPublic. I dont know if these are the same things or not, and in either case, I absolutely dont know
what to do.
Can anyone suggest/guide as to what should I do?
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Just to check, have you tried to convert your sd cards into internal storage (adoptable storage) before the problem occurs ?

@zlazaar I'm not sure bro.. All I did was just copied one app from my internal memory to the external SD Card. But I didn't jot try to convert Tele external SD into an internal memory.. Do you think that's what the issue is here?

Shreyu said:
@zlazaar I'm not sure bro.. All I did was just copied one app from my internal memory to the external SD Card. But I didn't jot try to convert Tele external SD into an internal memory.. Do you think that's what the issue is here?
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Can you try this please :
- Format one of your sd cards using your PC (use this recommended tool)
- Make sure you choose FAT32 as file system before format
- Check if you got the correct total size of the formatted sd card
- Shutdown your phone, put your sdcard, boot directly to recovery
if the recovery is able to recognize the sd card with the correct total size, then you don't have a hardware failure.

Shreyu said:
Sorry buddy, but didn't quite understand when you said" given it a name". How and what did you do to name your SD Card? I will definitely try anything to make it work
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When you connect it to a PC, when viewing My Computer as it used to be called, you can see all of the drives, C:, D: etc, on that screen if you right click above your SD card drive select rename, it should be under removable drives. A long shot but also an easy one so worth a punt.

3dd1 said:
When you connect it to a PC, when viewing My Computer as it used to be called, you can see all of the drives, C:, D: etc, on that screen if you right click above your SD card drive select rename, it should be under removable drives. A long shot but also an easy one so worth a punt.
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I totally agree, sd card volume must have a name.
Thank you

zlazaar said:
Can you try this please :
- Format one of your sd cards using your PC (use this recommended tool)
- Make sure you choose FAT32 as file system before format
- Check if you got the correct total size of the formatted sd card
- Shutdown your phone, put your sdcard, boot directly to recovery
if the recovery is able to recognize the sd card with the correct total size, then you don't have a hardware failure.
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@zlazaar Hey buddy, so I downloaded the SD Formatter, and did a quick format (should I have done full Format - if yes, which one - Erase or overwrite). I also tried the Format Size Adjustment ON and OFF.
I have 2 SD Cards, one 128gb and the other a 32gb. The SD Formatter formatted the 128gb card as an exFAT, and the it formatted the 32gb card as a FAT32. However, TWRP still didn't recognize either of the cards. I still dont have the cards running on the phone..

3dd1 said:
When you connect it to a PC, when viewing My Computer as it used to be called, you can see all of the drives, C:, D: etc, on that screen if you right click above your SD card drive select rename, it should be under removable drives. A long shot but also an easy one so worth a punt.
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Hey bud, so I did rename the SD Cards, but still, not working. The phone still doesn't recognize the memory cards