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    SD Card Dilemma - Wheres the Available Space???

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Les, Feb 21, 2010.

  1. Les

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    Bought a 32 Gb sd card a few days back and threw it in my system. It stays there. I did some file movement then formatted it. Full 32gb.

    Today I went to use it but it says only 786mb available. the pie shows the rest in red in Windows. It wont format completely and there is literally only 786mb available.

    I cannot get it to format in Fat32 or NTFS. The funny thing is it recognizes the total capacity as 32gb.

    Thoughts on how to get my 32Gb back???
     
    Les, Feb 21, 2010
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    what if you try using diskpart to clean?
     
    goofball, Feb 21, 2010
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  3. Les

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    I am not familar with diskpart. Just installed it but??? Can u help?
     
    Les, Feb 21, 2010
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    Go to my computer or computer what ever it says. Click on it. Choose your memory card and open it. Right click in it and choose properties now open tools. If this works you can check it for errors and defrag and backup files. It seems more likely that you have a bad card. Take it back and get a new one.
     
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  5. Les

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    No errors detected and defrag says no defragmentation...

    still cant get to 31.2gb of space

    Disk Management even shows the disk as having 32gb of space...just cannoyt repartition or format...
     
    Les, Feb 21, 2010
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    sounds like your card is dead. return it and get a new one
     
    yuio, Feb 21, 2010
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    Told me I had 30.4Gb of unknown space...ehehehe tx...
     
    Les, Feb 21, 2010
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    You didnt buy it from ebay right?
     
    flipfire, Feb 21, 2010
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    vostro1400user, Feb 21, 2010
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  11. Les

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    Yup got it off ebay but seller had 100% on all previous sales...

    And testing but writing will take awhile apparently for 787mb

    This is the response from the program...

    Error writing file 'D:\1.h2w', offset 0xf00000.
    It is still possible to verify the test data written up to this point.
    (The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error. Code 1117)
    Warning: Only 787 of 31987 MByte tested.
    Writing speed: 7.78 MByte/s
    H2testw v1.4
     
    Les, Feb 21, 2010
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    looks at least it's a bad one if not a fake one...
     
    vostro1400user, Feb 21, 2010
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  13. Les

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    Seller already refunded my 29 bucks so cant complain.
     
    Les, Feb 21, 2010
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    29$? that's all it costed? I be willing to bet that it was a fake.
     
    yuio, Feb 22, 2010
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    A known fake..
     
    ronnieb, Feb 22, 2010
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    Could be a fake.

    I remember they were selling 256gb memory sticks in China like 2 years ago and the funny thing was that windows would see the 256gb capacity but you could only really use like 1gb of it.
     
    flipfire, Feb 22, 2010
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    newsposter, Feb 22, 2010
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