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Old 03-19-2007, 02:56 AM
SBrown
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Default Help formating a MiniSD card to FAT32
Here's my issue. I just recently acquired a new Palm Treo 750 smartphone w/Win Mobile 5. The specs say it uses a MiniSD expansion card up to 2GB. Not wanting anything but the best, I ordered a Palm branded 2GB card! My phone used it a day then quit recognizing it. A search of the Palm site presented the instructions to "Make sure that the MiniSD card is formatted to FAT32 and re-insert card". When I placed the card on my laptop it wouldn't recognize it either, in fact, it causes the "My Computer" service to quit responding. I've attempted to format the card to FAT32 and get the message "Windows was unable to complete the format" and everything stops. I can format it to FAT just fine but the phone won't recognize the card. I've tried to format it via the Windows utility and command line but to no avail.

A google search of the messages provides the advice to try formating the card to NTFS then to FAT32 but the Windows utility doesn't provide that option and when I try to do it via command line I'm "told" the disk is optimized for removal and cannot be formatted to NTFS.

Can anyone tell me how to format this stupid little card to FAT32?

THANKS!
 
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