sd card cannot format, weird OS like structure

[xsalarie]

hi all,

 

so recently i found an old sd card i owned, i was like "hey i want to use it for something" so i went and stick it into my pc. but it didn't show up in windows explorer...

 

though it did show up in disk management, i wanted to format it either via there or diskpart (clean > create partition primary > format fs=fat32 quick) but i couldn't...

 

then i realized that there was an OS like structure on the sd and i don't remember what i had put on there before, i did manage to recover all 5000 photo's that were on there but i am still not able to format it propperly.

even partition wizzard 12 couldn't format it

 

anyone know what to do?

 

oh yeah here is a screenshot with the sd structure (it was marked as lost files (FAT) so hope that it helps)

 

[Applefreak]

Maybe write protection enabled (the little slider on the card) or the partition was set to be write protected.

The card could also be bad, that's why it won't allow you to make changes to it.

[xsalarie]

14 minutes ago, Applefreak said:

Maybe write protection enabled (the little slider on the card) or the partition was set to be write protected.

The card could also be bad, that's why it won't allow you to make changes to it.

so the slider is in the off position, i tried aomei partition manager and it said basically this (see screenshot) so i don't remember what or when i used it for... can't i look at it with linux maybe? i've tried so with ubuntu but it can't seem to find it at all

 

[xsalarie]

update: so i found out that the 16mb partiton is an android metadata partition it's name is android_meta.
and the other partitino is called android ext partiton called android_expand

 

i know windows is kinda dumb and cn only read from fat to exFAT to NTFS.

[Rylyguy]

Just now, xsalarie said:

update: so i found out that the 16mb partiton is an android metadata partition it's name is android_meta.
and the other partitino is called android ext partiton called android_expand

 

i know windows is kinda dumb and cn only read from fat to exFAT to NTFS.

I’ve had LOTS of trouble erasing sd cards with android data before. I eventually gave up trying to save a 64 gb Samsung evo card I had. I would have been more mad if I hadn’t gotten the card for free because I was scammed and Amazon returned my money

[xsalarie]

Just now, Rylyguy said:

I’ve had LOTS of trouble erasing sd cards with android data before. I eventually gave up trying to save a 64 gb Samsung evo card I had. I would have been more mad if I hadn’t gotten the card for free because I was scammed and Amazon returned my money

so how hard is it actually? does the log of rufus help? bacause rufus cannot make a partition out of it it seems

 

[Rylyguy]

6 minutes ago, xsalarie said:

so how hard is it actually? does the log of rufus help? bacause rufus cannot make a partition out of it it seems

 

I tried in windows disk management. macOS disk utility, and gparted. And some programs on the phone that were supposed to format it to exfat. None of them succeeded so I have a tiny peace of plastic I can’t use n

[xsalarie]

just hold on to it, maybe we ever come across linus making a video abt this

[xsalarie]

Just now, Rylyguy said:

I tried in windows disk management. macOS disk utility, and gparted. And some programs on the phone that were supposed to format it to exfat. None of them succeeded so I have a tiny peace of plastic I can’t use n

so i possibly found something that could help.

 

if you know how to do this then we might be in luck

 

https://nelenkov.blogspot.com/2015/06/decrypting-android-m-adopted-storage.html