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Formatting a removable drive

  • 25-09-2006 1:01pm
    #1
    PDelux
    Closed Accounts Posts: 296 ✭✭


    I have a 2GB RS-MMC flash memory card and am trying to format it with Windows XP. It is new, out of the box but i dont know if it is damaged or not.
    When i click on the drive windows says it is not formatted as usual but the formatting window shows 3.88GB instead of 2GB which is wrong. Then it fails to format.

    I have searched the internet for information on this and found a Microsoft article here:
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=303582

    This tells me to try using the command-line to format the card which i did. But i get this message:
    G:\>format F: /FS:FAT /V:
    Insert new disk for drive F:
    and press ENTER when ready...
    The type of the file system is RAW.
    The new file system is FAT.
    Verifying 3982M
    WARNING! The cluster size for this volume, 64K bytes, may cause
    application compatibility problems, particularly with setup applications.
    The volume must be less than 2048 MB in size to change this if the
    default cluster size is being used.
    Proceed with Format using a 64K cluster (Y/N)? Y
    Invalid media or Track 0 bad - disk unusable.

    As you can see it still thinks it is 3.88GB instead of 2GB.

    i am using a Belkin 8-in-1 USB card reader. This comes with special formatting software so i also tried this. This software correctly identifies the card as 2GB but reports an error erasing sector 0 when it tries to format.

    Is there anything else i can check? Do you think the card is faulty?


Comments

  • #2
    PDelux
    Closed Accounts Posts: 296 ✭✭PDelux


    Sorry, but i just solved it right after the post.
    I found a third memory card reader(from one of my work colleagues) and this worked no problems. It seems the other memory card readers did not support 2GB.


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