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How to use SDXC and rockbox. (In my case anyway.)

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ChrisHaigh:
Hello everyone.

I  had some trouble getting my fuze to even recognise my new 64gb micro sdXC card.
There is a llot of information going around the internet based on this sort of problem, I will try to explain what I found to be the truth through trial and error. This may be sen as a simple process however I struggled with it and wanted to help anyone else who may.


Due to a ~4gb file size limit (synics will say it's due to marketing scheems) the industry has decided that any SD card over 32gb will now use the exFat format. Most devices can't understand this and then cannot format them to make them work properly(Big discussions on both the Cowan and Pandora forums about this issue.). As wodz says, you need to format the card to Fat32 to sort it out. Unfortunatly microsoft restricts the formats avable to an SDXC card to NTFS and exFat, neither of which worked on my rockbox. The only way I could get the card formatted to Fat32 was to download GUIformatter (http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm). Some people say fat32formatter (http://tokiwa.qee.jp/EN/Fat32Formatter/) also works, however I had no luck with it. GUIFormatter is extremely straight forward software, great for lazy people like me. It did have some quibbles about drive "A", something about a floppy drive being open, but I just pressed the "continue" button everytime it moaned and we had no problems with each other. selecting your drive is simple enough with the dropping menue at the top left, then just press start. I was a little confused as to where you selected format, but I later figured out that it is automaticly set to Fat32. I didn't use quick format, operating under the somewhat ignorant belife that something done slower is more likley to work.

so, step, by step this is what you need to do.

downlod GUIformatter (http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm)
find and run guiformat.exe as administrator.
select drive's letter.
UN-tick Quick Format.
press start.
and that should be it.

I would link you straight to downloads, however if the sights change there layouts the links will stop working.

goodluck,
Chris.

wodz:
You will need to reformat it to fat32 as rockbox doesn't support exfat

ChrisHaigh:
Thanks, I've been trying to do that, but struggeling. and recomendations?

toehser:
Well, it is just a Windows issue, for me on Linux, it "just works", so, maybe if you have a friend who runs Linux, or are adventurous enough to try it?

bluebrother:
A Windows tool mentioned often (easily to find if you just google for your problem ...) is swissknife. There's also h2format that formats any drive with FAT32.

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