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BJsgoodlife
Asked: 2014-02-02 06:54:08 +0800 CST

How do you format a micro sd card?

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I recently bought this micro sd card, and I think I am having trouble formating it. In my mp3 player, it says card error. So I took it to the computer. After clicking on the file icon, I clicked on the memory card. memory card 1 Then, after clicking on it get this error message. memory card 2 Can anyone help me with this problem? Thank you all in your efforts.

I installed gparted but I am still having trouble. I got rid of the exclamation point though, and I think I found a clue. I got a new error message after clicking on the file system. memory card 3

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3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You can use Disks (a.k.a. gnome-disks).

    If you cannot find it in your menu, you need to go to a terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T and type:

    sudo apt-get install gnome-disk-utility

    This is a tool to manage disk drives and media:

    • Format and partition drives.
    • Mount and unmount partitions.
    • Query S.M.A.R.T. attributes. It utilizes udisks.

    It provides two options:

    1. Formatting the entire disk:

    Format Disk Menu

    and

    1. Formatting each separate partition

    Format Partition Menu

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  2. You should install the following packages to support exfat in Ubuntu (14.04 or higher):

    sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse exfat-utils
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  3. I think there is something built-in with 16.04. Just type " Disk " on dash and you will get something called " Disks ". It should show you all mounted volumes in your PC. And, as far as I can remember, it allows you to format the volume as well (on right clicking the drive ).

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