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Micro sd card size wrong

Hellowpplz
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I bought a 256 gb samsung evo micro sd card for my nintendo switch, and it's been working fairly well for a while. I recently used it with my laptop as I had to reinstall windows, then wiped it again, and now when I plug it into the switch it reports 20gb? I've tried reformatting it using my windows 11 laptop to : exfat, fat32, ntfs and none fixed this

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Open it in a partition manager. Likely something created a 20 GB partition, so that is all you get when your format it. You'd have to delete the partition and create a new one.

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2 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

Open it in a partition manager. Likely something created a 20 GB partition, so that is all you get when your format it. You'd have to delete the partition and create a new one.

Any tutorial on how to do this? I have Disk Management open but im lost.

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Just now, Hellowpplz said:

Any tutorial on how to do this?

Not really. Open Disk Management, you should be able to see if there's unallocated space.

 

Deleting the partition should be pretty straightforward. Right click, delete, right click, create.

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1 minute ago, Eigenvektor said:

Not really. Open Disk Management, you should be able to see if there's unallocated space.

 

Deleting the partition should be pretty straightforward. Right click, delete, right click, create.

It shows up as 256gb none of it is unallocated on my laptop 😕

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13 hours ago, Hellowpplz said:

I deleted the partition and re-added it. Any idea what could have caused this though?

SD cards are utter trash tier storage. Most photogs I know run dual SD cards in their cameras and trash the card as soon as it's full

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1 hour ago, OddOod said:

SD cards are utter trash tier storage. Most photogs I know run dual SD cards in their cameras and trash the card as soon as it's full

Why do they trash it though? Do their readers / ports just fry up or what? When playing a game off it on my switch I did notice it burning up is that something to do with it.

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4 hours ago, Hellowpplz said:

Why do they trash it though? Do their readers / ports just fry up or what? When playing a game off it on my switch I did notice it burning up is that something to do with it.

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