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Garchomp:
Hi

I just got a 8GB Clip Zip and 64GB official Sandisk microSD card. I installed Rockbox and formatted the card to FAT32 with Partition Wizard, but the card will not show up in Rockbox. There is nothing in the files menu for the card and the Rockbox info says "HD1 Not present". The card also will not appear in the standard firmware, but it shows up when plugged into my PC. The card I am using is this one: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009QZH6JS
Post Merge: November 13, 2012, 11:32:59 PMI got it working, I had to update the official Sansa firmware.

matd:
Hi,

I've tried both a Samsung Class 10 SDXC 64GB Micro SD card and also a Kingston Class 10 SDXC Micro SD card in my Sansa Clip + running RockBox v3.13 but neither card show up under Files. Both cards formatted to FAT32 without any problem.

I've formatted a Samsung Class 10 32GB Micro SD card with FAT32 and that gets recognised by the Sansa as soon as i insert the card.

Has anyone had any luck running a 64GB class 10 micro SD card with the Sansa Clip+ and if so what make and model of SD card are you using and did you have to do anything special other than formatting to FAT32 in order to get it to be recognised by the Sansa?

matd:
Ok worked this out myself, so may help others!

I had formatted FAT32 as a logical partition by accident!

I was using a free partition manager, EaseUS but it defaults to a logical rather than primary partition!

You need to make sure you format FAT32 as a primary partition and it works! :-D

kharv:
Here are some tips especially if you are under Linux. Many of these commands might require SUDO access.

STEP 1: CREATE A FAT 32 PARTITION
- Plug in the device, do fdisk -l  to find the /dev/sd? (for example, we will use: /dev/sdc, be careful! the last letter might be different for you)
- Run fdisk /dev/sdc
- Delete all partitions on the device
- Create a new partition, use all the defaults (just hit enter on all the options)
- It will say a 'linux' file system was created
- Change partition type, choose 'c' (Windows 95 with LBA FAT 32)
- This should create the partition we want for the microSD card.

STEP 2: CREATE A FILE SYSTEM (FORMAT)
- Type fdisk -l to list your partitions, you should see something like this:


--- Code: ---Disk /dev/sdc: 59,5 GiB, 63864569856 bytes, 124735488 sectors
Unités : secteur de 1 × 512 = 512 octets
Taille de secteur (logique / physique) : 512 octets / 512 octets
taille d'E/S (minimale / optimale) : 512 octets / 512 octets
Type d'étiquette de disque : dos
Identifiant de disque : 0x00000000

Périphérique Amorçage Début       Fin    Blocs  Id Système
/dev/sdc1              2048 124735487 62366720   c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
--- End code ---

The /dev/sdc1 showing W95 FAT 32 (LBA) confirms you did step 1 right

- In Linux you use the mkdosfs command to format your disk
- Use mkdosfs -F 32 -I /dev/sdc1 (adjust sdc1 to be whatever your partition is, as per the cited example above)
- Now you have formatted your microSD card
- It should show up and work in your Sansa device.

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