4 Gig SD card...can't format

tomaitas · 09-07-07, 08:07 AM

Hey There, I have a 4Gig SD card and I formatted it when I got it, worked great, I could copy all my stuff from work to home...I wanted to put it in my X5 and after reading the post on size limits I took it out. One day I read a post to format the card to 1 gig partions...tried it and it worked for the first time...and that's it...it no work any more

When I put it in my laptop I try to format it and I can't, I looked for software and still I can't format it.

Does anyone know of a good SD Format program to format this with. One program said it had bad sectors on it but still it is dead.

Any help pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze

larrywms45 · 09-07-07, 08:49 AM

Give this one a try. I have it and it works great. Make sure to format to the right FAT; 16 or 32 depending on what your unit will read.

Download Flash Format 2.62 - Format, Verify, Repair and AutoRun Memory Cards 2.62 Free Trial - The full featured Storage Card management utility.

tomaitas · 09-07-07, 09:25 AM

Hey There, Thanks for the link...it still didn't work, it tells me to insert a SD card, It tells me do you want to format I say yes then a second later it says it failed.

I really think I killed this card

Originally Posted by larrywms45

Give this one a try. I have it and it works great. Make sure to format to the right FAT; 16 or 32 depending on what your unit will read.

Download Flash Format 2.62 - Format, Verify, Repair and AutoRun Memory Cards 2.62 Free Trial - The full featured Storage Card management utility.

Gigi · 09-07-07, 01:43 PM

Did you by any chance get this card on Ebay? Ebay is full of fakes and sub-quality cards.

uzziah0 · 09-07-07, 02:59 PM

HP has a partitioning tool, but your X5 will most likely not access any more that 1GB of the card, even though it should all 4 GB. Once you go over that 1GB mark the Axim goes south fast. You'll have to put the card into a PC card reader and straighten it out, so you only have 1 GB (less when formatted, but I'm not sure the total number).

I did a bunch of things to try getting my 2 GB card working, but it didn't work. A couple of us tinkered with this for a while.
If you are looking at the card in your Axim, only, you can probably straighten things out using a PC.

neyel8r · 09-10-07, 10:00 PM

strange, i've got a pqi 4gb sd card which reads as a full 4gb in my x5... the only problem i've ever had with it was recently when i suddenly wasn't able to write to it anymore. but a backup to my pc, format of sd card, & rewrite from backup cleared that all up.

uzziah0 · 09-10-07, 10:45 PM

Originally Posted by neyel8r

strange, i've got a pqi 4gb sd card which reads as a full 4gb in my x5... the only problem i've ever had with it was recently when i suddenly wasn't able to write to it anymore. but a backup to my pc, format of sd card, & rewrite from backup cleared that all up.

First, have you ever had more than 1 GB on that card?
I had my 2Gb SD in my X5 for months, and thought I'd get a full use of the 2 GB, but when I finally went over the 1GB mark, that card would not read. I had to put it my card reader to remove a file, then it worked fine.
I slightly remember someone had an X5 that would read past the 1 GB mark. We just surmised the HW being used for the last round of X5s built used different HW.

Let us know.

Blades67 · 05-11-08, 07:08 PM

So I sould only use 1gig cards in my X5??
Just want to make sure before I buy something wrong.
Thanks!

Jason

DoDoubleGeo · 05-12-08, 07:47 AM

Only use a 1gb SD card. You can use larger CF cards, but I am not sure how big the X5 can handle.

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