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Micro SD Card – All Information About Reformatting them

Complete Information about Micro SD Card

Micro SD card is a digital storage card, which stores data in different digital formats. You’ll find several SD cards sizes having various capacities available to buy. These cards are used in mobile phones, digital cameras and people also use it in transferring data from one digital device to other instantly.

  • Micro SD card has an ability to store any data up to its capacity such as 512 MB, 1 GB, 2 GB, 4GB, 8 GB and others
  • This small gadget provides several benefits to its users like storing data, transferring information and others.

Here we will discuss some points to highlight the basics of formatting a SD memory card

  • If your memory card is corrupted, then you must opt to format it and bring it back to action
  • If your memory card is infected by a virus, then formatting is the only option
  • There are times when you’ll need to format your memory card to create the system files in memory card, so that it starts functioning
  • In some cases, you also might have to delete all your stored files from memory card, in order to reformat it
  • You also reformat it to enhance the speed of your device hosting the SD card

Follow The Below Mentioned Steps To Format Your Memory Card:

Initially, you’ll need to make sure that you can format your memory card directly from its host device, be it a mobile phone or a digital camera. However, if you are going to use the memory card for a new device, then you must find out if the device is compatible for it. Mostly people prefer to format it on their desktop or a laptop, so that they can save the stored data safely.

Note: Its best to take a backup on your computer so that there is not risk of losing it under any circumstances and you could refer to it as and when required.

  • Firstly, you will need to have a memory card reader, which comes along with a USB cable. Insert the cable to the USB Port to connect it to the computer. Your system might ask you to verify the connection with the USB device, which in this case is the memory card reader. After establishing the connection, insert the card to the compatible slot, since some card readers might multiple slots to accommodate different types of cards.
  • Then, navigate to “My computer” and right click on the drive that belongs to the card reader. You will get a dialogue box on your screen, where you’ll have to choose the proper format of memory card, before initializing the formatting procedure.
  • Select FAT 32, and click on the start option.
  • You will get warning message stating whether you want to proceed with the formatting process. If you are sure, then click on the ok option and let the procedure continue
  • Once the entire process is completed, you’ll get a message box stating “Format complete” on your screen.

There are a few applications available in market, which can be used for formatting the SD cards such as SD formatter3.0 version and other Flash formats. These applications are built to support almost every operating system and they enable the users to format their memory card systematically.

Some of the common problem that might occur while formatting memory card:

  • Some of the users have encountered problems where their screens show a message stating “this card cannot be formatted”, which clearly means that the memory card is corrupted or damaged.
  • There are times, even when your memory card is not damaged or corrupted, you still could face the same issue. In such case, you’ll need to check the adopter that you are using.
  • The similar kind of error could be prompted by your computer if the memory card is write-protected

In order to prevent these problems, you’ll need to make sure that you buy only genuine SD cards and avoid inserting your card into malfunctioned computer or transfer the data to a virus infected computer or other device. It is recommended that you use SD card formatting applications, which are highly safe and reliable.

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How Can I Transfer Photos From Samsung, Nikon, Canon To My Computer And To My CD, DVD

Transferring Photos from Camera to an XP Computer and Burning them to CD

For the really uninitiated using XP computers, a simple job such as transferring the photos from a newly bought digital camera to the PC and then burning them on to a CD can a daunting task. However, if you follow the steps listed out below, you cannot go wrong.

Transferring the Photos to your XP computer

There are two ways to do this:

  1. The first is to use the default software that comes with your camera – be it of a Samsung, Nikon, Canon, or any other make.
    1. In this method, you use the USB cable to plug in your camera to a USB port on your computer.
    2. Make sure that your default camera software is already installed on it. After that your, camera is detected by the software, and it starts by itself. [In case it doesn’t, you should locate the program in the Start Menu -> Programs menu and start it manually.]
    3. Then, the software will guide you through the various steps of transferring the photos from the camera. [The exact details vary from case to case.]
  2. The other way is to use the memory card that is there in your camera. For this either you have to have a Memory Card Reader slot on your PC/laptop, or you need to have a Memory Card Reader that goes into a USB port.
    1. Plug in the memory card of the camera.
    2. It will be detected as a separate drive in My Computer.
    3. Simply open the directory, and copy-paste/move the photos as you would any normal files located on your PC.
    4. Eject the drive when you are done.

Burning the photos to a CD

There are numerous options to do this. You can either use the default application in XP – which is to first insert a writable CD in the computer, and then copy the folder contents to the new CD drive. This starts a Write Contents to CD wizard that guides you through the burning process.

Alternatively, you can also use different burning softwares such Nero, Roxio, etc. that are easily available on the web.