Sansa Clip Zip 8 usable with Sandisk card from Ultra microSDXC UHS-I card with a

[MackyMack]

Hello Everyone. Sorry if this has been covered before. I have the Sansa Clip Zip 8. I went to Best Buy and told the the Tech there I wanted the highest capacity expansion card to work with this unit. The Tech gave me a SanDisk Ultra microSDXC UHS-I Card with Adapter. I couldn't figure out what was up, nothing fit. Even trying to fit just the card into my Clip Zip, it would not seat and kept popping out. I contacted Sansa Chat Support, The Tech explained this size card is incompatible with my unit and the adapter is unnecessary.

I see in some Google searches if one formats a 64g card using Fat32 and switches to RockBox it is posssible to use the 64g card? I need an answer since I will return the whole thing to Best Buy tomorrow unless told otherwise. I realize the adapter is unnescessary, should I return the whole package and see if they just have the micro card in 64G size?

Dazed and Confused, looking for a little? help

Thanks one and all for whatever you can offer.

[saratoga]

Yes, FAT32 formatted SDXC should work (its the same as regular SD). 

[toehser]

64GB works fine.  I keep one 64 in it, and another 64 tethered to it, for 136GB in my pocket.

[MackyMack]

Forgive my ignorance, but when I tried to insert the card into the slot on the side of the player, it didn't seat, just kept pushing back out. I had the lettering facing up. I thought it was just wrong for the device. You are using a Ultra microsdxc Uhs-I with or without the adapter (or compatible device?)

[saratoga]

No adapter is required.

[MackyMack]

I'm doing something basically wrong. I tried to install the microsdxc card into the slot with the face up, it just pushes back, one time so strongly it flew aways, I was lucky to find it.

[MackyMack]

Pushing more than I thought adviseable I got the card in face up. I tried to format the disk (which is being scene by the player in settings) with format program, when opened the only drives are my system drives. Not sure why this program wont see the drives for formatting purposes, good place to start tomorrow (1:19 A.M.) Thanks for your input guys, it's appreciated.

[toehser]

I've never tried to format a card with the player.  I have an adapter, and I use the computer to format it.  Does anyone know if the player can format a 64GB card?  I _don't_ know that it can do that... only that it works with a _formatted_ card...

Cards do have to go pretty far in - I push with my thumbnail - before they click into place.

I don't really want to try formatting it with the player... that would be time consuming and require a backup... is there a reason you didn't just use the computer?

Or, if you did, and couldn't do it that way, what operating system / utility / program are you trying, and what partitioning approach / filesystem are you trying to create?

It will only support FAT32...

[MackyMack]

11:57P Friday, just got finished. I couldn't figure out why I could see both hard drives of the Sansa Clip in Computer, yet when I rightclicked and chose Format, the only option was Format! No fat32, no ntfs options. I clicked on format, just sat there about 5 min, message unable to format. I wasted an S***load of time searching, found many utilities claiming they would do it, nothing worked. I finally got a clue, it looked like the System Utilities needed to set the USB mode to MSC from MTP.

I changed, now I could see both the external and internal drives as separate entities. I opened up the fat32 program, it now did see the ClipZip drives, not just my system drives, (prior it would only see system drives) when I clicked on G: drive, (just the way the system assigned the new drive letter) both of the Sansadisk hard drives appeared identically one below the other as 4gig.

 When I clicked on the below disk it showed the larger size disk. When I clicked format, an error box popped up, message "not failed to determine the drive ". At this point I went to the fat32 program website http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/
 and ran the program from there, the disk formatted correctly. I now have the disk avalable for use. I owe the ridgecrop website a donation.

[toehser]

Ah.  "...32GB limit is a limit of the formatter in Windows XP..." explains it.  Mine is a Linux house, so I wouldn't have guessed... WTF Microsoft?

[MackyMack]

A question on your tethered 64 setup. The tether you're using, is this fully readable by the system, or is the tether just for transporting the card? I have seen on the go usb cables and was wondering if they would be compatible.

[saratoga]

OTG will not work, we don't have a driver for it. 

[MackyMack]

Thanks for the info.

[toehser]

The tether is just for transporting the second 64GB card in a USB reader.