CARD Computer SD card can't format
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Today I received my CARD Computer and I'm loving it's design. I was playing around with the included apps and I ran into a problem with the notes app. I tried 3 different SD cards but none of them can be formatted. I get the following error message.
SD card mount failed Press enter to try again ctrl + q to quit ctrl +f to format
Naturally, I press
ctrl + f
to format the card, but I get another error.Failed to mount SD card, is it inserted? Press enter to continue
Any tips for getting past these errors?
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What SDcards did you try?
Also use a proper formatting program to format the cards to MSDOS fat format. -
The SD cards I tried are shown below.
- Micro Center Micro SD XC 128GB
- Lexar Micro SD HC 4GB
- SP Micro SD HC 4GB
I took your advice and I used gparted on all of them. I created a msdos partition table, then created a fat16 primary partition table. I was seeing the same errors from my initial post.
I tried fat32 as well. I was seeing the same errors.
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The 128 won’t work as its way to big, the 4g should work. Do they work on a computer?
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Ok, 128GB too big, that makes sense. Yes the two cards work on a computer when I use a USB adapter. I can read and write to them both. Could it be the HC part that's incompatible? These are all cards I used to use on a GoPro camera so they have the SD HC attribute. Haven't had any luck yet with them on the Cardputer. I'm looking around for other SD cards to test.
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@grimtechnet Did you ever solve this? I just got a new Cardputer and am experiencing the same result. I have tried two different 8GB cards formatted as FAT32 and also a 1GB card formatted as FAT and I get the same result with all of them. I tried both a quick format and a full format in Windows.
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@ckcampbell248 Update...I think I solved my own problem. I believe the problem is with the Notepad app in the demo firmware. We tried several different SD cards that were known to be working in M5Launcher and they all failed on two Cardputers using the demo firmware. I installed Launcher on my device, and I am able to install .bin files from the SD card.