8MB unallocated space on mSD Card after formatting

[strawberrymaker]

So today i switched the SD card on my Pi and i wanted to use that one for my phone. So i connected it to my pc, used easeus partition master to format the card (by deleting the two partitions from raspbmc and making a new one). But apparently my phone(huawei g525) wont recognize the sd card, which my pc did. after looking at the partitions, i found 8mb of space with i cant format.

 

 

Could the problem caused by that? Or should i just format it Ubuntu (live)? or just threw that sd card into another phone and hope to format it there? Thanks for the help

 

~Straw

[thekeemo]

try extending the main one also format in fat32

[VMaxMuffin]

Formatting in NTFS will be why your phone doesn't recognise the card, FAT32 would be the way to go. As for unallocated space, not sure. Seen it before but I can't remember when/where/why.

[strawberrymaker]

try extending the main one also format in fat32

Nope, if im moving the bar to the left, its jumping back to the normal position.

[flibberdipper]

It's normal. And for your phone to recognize it you'll have to format in FAT32.

[WinNut]

Try formatting using the Windows Disk Management program. It works wonders.

[strawberrymaker]

Formatting in NTFS will be why your phone doesn't recognise the card, FAT32 would be the way to go. As for unallocated space, not sure. Seen it before but I can't remember when/where/why.

formatted it now to fat32 and putted it back in the phone. the button "mount sd card" under settings -> storage is till grey. but if the sd card isnt formatted, i can click on it (but nothing happens)

 

~Straw

[strawberrymaker]

It's normal. And for your phone to recognize it you'll have to format in FAT32.

 

Try formatting using the Windows Disk Management program. It works wonders.

gonna try that now. unchecked quick format this time. but that shouldnt take this much time because the card isnt that big. 

 

~Straw

[strawberrymaker]

@WinNut @tmcclelland455 @thekeemo

well formatted the sd card now to fat32 over the windows disk manager, putted the card back in my phone aaand still the same problem. but if i remove the card, i get the message "REmoved SD card. SD card removed. Insert a new one"

I really dont know what i still can do. 

 

~Straw

[flibberdipper]

@WinNut @tmcclelland455 @thekeemo

well formatted the sd card now to fat32 over the windows disk manager, putted the card back in my phone aaand still the same problem. but if i remove the card, i get the message "REmoved SD card. SD card removed. Insert a new one"

I really dont know what i still can do. 

 

~Straw

Are you able to format it in your phone? Can't remember if you stated that or not.

[strawberrymaker]

Are you able to format it in your phone? Can't remember if you stated that or not.

when the card is formatted to fat32, nope. in settings -> storage, the button to mount the sd card is gray and not clickable. if the card isnt formatted, the button is clickable and i get the message "preparing sd card" but nothing happens after the message appears.

 

~Straw

[flibberdipper]

when the card is formatted to fat32, nope. in settings -> storage, the button to mount the sd card is gray and not clickable. if the card isnt formatted, the button is clickable and i get the message "preparing sd card" but nothing happens after the message appears.

 

~Straw

Huh. This makes me want to bring up GParted and Ubuntu, since I'm almost always able to fix stupid problems like this with that combo.

[strawberrymaker]

Huh. This makes me want to bring up GParted and Ubuntu, since I'm almost always able to fix stupid problems like this with that combo.

ok, im trying ubuntu. wish me luck ^^

 

~Straw

[flibberdipper]

ok, im trying ubuntu. wish me luck ^^

 

~Straw

Good luck. I'm off to bed and won't be back on for at least 12 hours (school, ew). I'll see how you're doing then.