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Brand New ZIP CLIP, looking to install largest possible SD Micro, recommendation

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bigK:
Hi All!

I just rockbox my new zip clip I nabbed on eBay. I was going to see if anyone had success with little to no issues with a large 128gb card for the zip clip and if you could recommend the brand?


I have been searching for quite awhile, but finding a lot of 2012 threads talking about possibly new technologies, and was hoping I could find someone that has resolved most of the issues with the bigger card.

I'm aware that you need to reformat it to FAT32

torsch:
Hello,

I can confirm that a 128GB-SDXC card will work on a Clip Zip without any problems as I had one until a truck killed my Sansa. Now I'm using this same card in an used-bought YPR0 (again without any issues). It's a SanDisk Ultra Micro SD XC I class 10 (the black one with red letters on it).
The card is exFAT-formatted (not FAT32).
I couldn't get it formatted via Windows Explorer but there's a free tool around somewhere which name I don't remember (try a search).
Or (my preferred way) do it in Linux via exfat-fuse "mkfs -t exfat ...".

Greetings

saratoga:

--- Quote from: torsch on April 04, 2016, 11:19:59 AM ---The card is exFAT-formatted (not FAT32).

--- End quote ---

You have them reversed. exFAT is the one that windows will format but that a lot of things don't support (like rockbox).  Fat32 needs a special tool for larger devices, but will work in almost everything.

torsch:
Oh ya! Shame on me!

Saratoga is absolutely right. It has to be FAT32(!) not exFAT (I mixed it up with my phone, where I'm using the same brand).
A RockBoxed ClipZip  will do fine with a 128GB FAT32-formatted card.

Sorry

saratoga:
No problem :)

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