Unable to format my SD-Card

Anony324 · 2024-07-11 08:49:13

I have a SD-Card lying around

I wanna format it for my personal use so i tried formatting it and could not do it and saw it has a write protection so i removed it so i changed it

sudo hdparm -r0 /dev/sdb1

/dev/sdb1:
setting readonly to 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)

still i could not format it
for formatting i am using Disk's by gnome i get a error

Error synchronizing after initial wipe: Timed out waiting for object (udisks-error-quark, 0)

Tried Gparted and its also not working tried to change to ext4 format
but saw something there when i checked the details of it, it was showing

Warning
Unable to read the contents of this file system!
Because of this some operations may be unavailable.
The cause might be a missing software package.
The following list of software packages is required for fat32 file system support: dosfstools, mtools.

currently the card is in fat32 format

Last edited by Anony324 (2024-07-11 08:51:35)

stas-t · 2024-07-11 08:57:20

You have the answer in the warning you see
Install dosfstools and mtools:

sudo pacman -S dosfstools mtools

You need at least dosfstools to format the partitions/device in fat32 because it has the required binary: /usr/bin/mkfs.vfat

Anony324 · 2024-07-11 09:18:11

I have installed both dosfstools mtools but still i am not able to format my sdcard
@stas-t

Head_on_a_Stick · 2024-07-11 11:39:56

Please run this command in a terminal as the root user and share the full output:

mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb1

Thanks.

seth · 2024-07-11 12:37:06

Error synchronizing after initial wipe

Can you read/write other cards in the same reader?
Can you read/write the concerned card in other readers (on other hosts)?

Anony324 · 2024-07-14 02:42:20

no i cannot

seth · 2024-07-14 05:53:23

You cannot "what" and "why", there're two questions and if the answer is just "I don't have another card or reader" that's also pointless.
There's a good chance the card is simply dead.

Anony324 · 2024-07-14 07:48:46

I am only able to read the card from the card reader and another card reader
The card works on another hosts and is able to read but cannot write both in my linux machine as well as in my another windows machine
My main reader works fine i have bunch of another card for other purpose it works fine and another card reader works but this card it is not able to write it can only read this card ( this card does not have a lock switch)

seth · 2024-07-14 07:51:19

this card does not have a lock switch

Is this actually some garden varienty SD card or some speciality? Have you ever been able to write it?

Anony324 · 2024-07-17 09:28:54

I haven't wrote anything in it
It was a sd-card from my online class which have prerecorded classes

seth · 2024-07-17 11:52:12

There's a good chance the card defaults to read-only

this card does not have a lock switch

What does that look like? Is there a notch? Does it help if you tape that off?
https://i.sstatic.net/jr0Ms.jpg

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