Can't format FAT16 microSD card

For reasons too long to explain, I formatted my 2GB AData microSD card
to FAT16 instead of 32. Shortly after, I found out that that wasn't a
good idea, as when I reinserted it into my adapter and into the PC, it
wouldn't recognize it anymore.
I tried two different readers (one microsd direct reader and a miniSD
convertor one) on two different PCs, both running on WinXP.
What I want to do is reformat this on FAT32 so I can get on with it as
before. Is there a way to do this, or is it beyond repair? I kinda need
it now and in the near future, so going out and buying another isn't an
answer for me.

Thanks!

Previously card wrote:

For reasons too long to explain, I formatted my 2GB AData microSD card
to FAT16 instead of 32. Shortly after, I found out that that wasn't a
good idea, as when I reinserted it into my adapter and into the PC, it
wouldn't recognize it anymore.
I tried two different readers (one microsd direct reader and a miniSD
convertor one) on two different PCs, both running on WinXP.
What I want to do is reformat this on FAT32 so I can get on with it as
before. Is there a way to do this, or is it beyond repair? I kinda need
it now and in the near future, so going out and buying another isn't an
answer for me.

Thanks!

Typically formatting it to FAT16 shpuld not cause any significant
problems, except large cluster size and reduced space. It should
vcertainly not damage the card in any way.

I suspect the card is either broken (no relation to the FAT16
formatting) or there is some compatibility issue with the
(as usual) broken Microsofr OS. You can try wiping the
card wih one of the many free disk wipers out there.


Arno

You can use bootitng to make a bootable CD that's free until you install
it on the HD and exceed the free trial. When it boots skip install and
go to maintenance. You can delete the partition on the card and make a
new one for fat32 and format it.

I'm assuming that will work since on my memory sticks I do that but I
make them NTFS.

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Why would anyone go to all that trouble? Disk Managment will do all that.

"Ed Light" wrote in message ...
You can use bootitng to make a bootable CD that's free until you install
it on the HD and exceed the free trial. When it boots skip install and
go to maintenance. You can delete the partition on the card and make a
new one for fat32 and format it.

I'm assuming that will work since on my memory sticks I do that but I
make them NTFS.

Eric Gisin wrote:
Why would anyone go to all that trouble? Disk Managment will do all that.

"Ed Light" wrote in message
...
You can use bootitng to make a bootable CD that's free until you
install it on the HD and exceed the free trial. When it boots skip
install and go to maintenance. You can delete the partition on the
card and make a new one for fat32 and format it.

I'm assuming that will work since on my memory sticks I do that but I
make them NTFS.


In the end, it's the excellence of the method. :-)

Seriously, I just tried it your way but delete partition was greyed out.

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"Ed Light" wrote in message news:xdzek.15940$Oq1.6624@fe95...
Eric Gisin wrote:
You can use bootitng to make a bootable CD that's free until you

Why would anyone go to all that trouble? Disk Managment will do all that.

In the end, it's the excellence of the method. :-)

Seriously, I just tried it your way but delete partition was greyed out.

Because the SD card had no partition table, like a floppy. Which is usually preferable.

Eric Gisin wrote:
"Ed Light" wrote in message
news:xdzek.15940$Oq1.6624@fe95...
Eric Gisin wrote:
You can use bootitng to make a bootable CD that's free until you

Why would anyone go to all that trouble? Disk Managment will do all
that.

In the end, it's the excellence of the method. :-)

Seriously, I just tried it your way but delete partition was greyed out.

Because the SD card had no partition table, like a floppy. Which is
usually preferable.

I'm no expert, but why, then, could I create an NTFS partition and
format it in Windows? On a thumb drive.

To the original point, I can do it with bootitng. XP won't.
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Previously Ed Light wrote:
Eric Gisin wrote:
"Ed Light" wrote in message
news:xdzek.15940$Oq1.6624@fe95...
Eric Gisin wrote:
You can use bootitng to make a bootable CD that's free until you

Why would anyone go to all that trouble? Disk Managment will do all
that.

In the end, it's the excellence of the method. :-)

Seriously, I just tried it your way but delete partition was greyed out.

Because the SD card had no partition table, like a floppy. Which is
usually preferable.

I'm no expert, but why, then, could I create an NTFS partition and
format it in Windows? On a thumb drive.

Unless it actually is a floppy, you have two choices:

1)''Superfloppy'', i.e. without partition table
2)Partitioned

In the first case the wholde device is layed out much like a
partition. You can even partition a floppy, but MS OSes are
brain-damaged and cannot deal with that.

The reason this is non-obvious on Windows is that MS thinks
it needs to protect its customers from this ''advanced''
things. They could get confused otherwise.

Arno

"Ed Light" wrote in message
...
Eric Gisin wrote:
"Ed Light" wrote in message news:xdzek.15940$Oq1.6624@fe95...
Eric Gisin wrote:
You can use bootitng to make a bootable CD that's free until you

Why would anyone go to all that trouble? Disk Managment will do all that.

In the end, it's the excellence of the method. :-)

Seriously, I just tried it your way but delete partition was greyed out.

Because the SD card had no partition table, like a floppy. Which is usually preferable.

I'm no expert, but why, then, could I create an NTFS partition and format it in Windows? On a
thumb drive.

To the original point, I can do it with bootitng. XP won't.

Sure it will. You don't create partitions of "a type", you select the type during format.

To the original point, I can do it with bootitng. XP won't.

Sure it will. You don't create partitions of "a type", you select the
type during format.

You have to have a partition to format in the 1st place. You can't
format free space.

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