SD Card Formatting

[Guest pjam001]

Hello,

Just got my 512mb card. It says that it is very important that you format the card in the device that you will use it in or you could lose data in the long term. Should I be worried about doing this within the laptop card reader or my phone? Am I best putting the first batch of music/video on within the laptop before I put it in the phone? Which is quickest etc?

Cheers

[Guest squall]

firstly i dont think its to important to format the card in the phone provided the phone can read the card.

If you want to format the card try task manager from binarys.com

Its quicker to copy files from a laptop onto the card

[Guest pjam001]

Thanks for that squall.

If I right click on the card within my laptop I get the option to format Fat or Fat32. Which is best for this mini sd?

cheers

[Guest bluesmudge]

Thanks for that squall.

If I right click on the card within my laptop I get the option to format Fat or Fat32.  Which is best for this mini sd?

cheers

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Mine is set to FAT and works fine ;)

- the key to this, as with most things in life - If it works don't play with it . . . there are a couple of things you should play with if they work - i'll leave you to decide what that is ;) .

[Guest DomConway]

Mine is set to FAT and works fine :P

- the key to this, as with most things in life - If it works don't play with it . . . there are a couple of things you should play with if they work - i'll leave you to decide what that is ;) .

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Mine's FAT32 and also works fine - I believe FAT32 uses a smaller cluster size so there's less wasted/"slack" space on the card. I say "I believe" cos I'm not 100% sure if that only applies to FAT/FAT32 disks as opposed to RAM, I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong ;)

[Guest bluesmudge]

Mine's FAT32 and also works fine - I believe FAT32 uses a smaller cluster size so there's less wasted/"slack" space on the card.  I say "I believe" cos I'm not 100% sure if that only applies to FAT/FAT32 disks as opposed to RAM, I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong  ;)

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I believe if you're not right, you're at least close. i think FAT 32 refers to 32bit 'clusters', but that leaves the question, how big are they on FAT?

[Guest DomConway]

I believe if you're not right, you're at least close. i think FAT 32 refers to 32bit 'clusters', but that leaves the question, how big are they on FAT?

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FAT=16-bit.