
Now the computer will delete the contents of your SD card and format it. A message will appear asking, “Are you sure you want to erase the partition “?” Click “Erase”.Next, click on the “Format” dropdown menu.Click the ERASE tab in the middle of the window.
It’ll be named something like NO NAME, UNTITLED or possibly the manufacturers name of your Trail Cam. Find the SD card in the left side of the window.Type “disk utility” in the search box that opens, then click on the “Disk Utility” Application that comes up. To do this, click on the magnifying glass in the top-right corner of your computer screen. In this case, we'd recommend either upgrading your OS to 10.6.6 or later, or formatting your card to Fat32. This means that you won't be able to format or use exFAT card on your computer. Also note – Mac OS 10.6.5 or earlier does not support exFAT format, which most 64 GB SD cards are formatted to.Formatting the SD card deletes all the data off of the card. The naming of the device will follow the format described in the next.
The new device that has appeared is your SD card (you can also usually tell from the listed device size). If not, insert the card into an SD card reader, then connect the reader to your computer.
Connect the SD card to your computer by using The Trail Cam Buddy (Or an internal one if you are using a macbook) Save all the files from your SD card that you want to keep to your computer before moving to step 2. If your computer has a slot for SD cards, insert the card. for Windows 7 which could either repair the exFAT file system, or save selected missing files to a hard drive? Many many files are missing, it’s 64 GB and only part of it is already saved … Thanks. Before Windows supposedly replaced the DOS and BIOS level, low level programs as disk doctor and Norton utilities or low level disk access tools could help.ĭoes anybody know a free low level disk access. The comand line “chkdsck G: /f” doesn’t work either. They all use Windows for file access, which isn’t possible. I tried many free SD and file repair programs available. Funnily, some computers running Windows 7 don’t realize the card at all, while one Windows 7 recognizes a removable strage, without type, nor size information. The large rest seems lost, as Windows 7 doesn’t recognize the SDXC card 64 GB from Platinum any more. II thought they had kicked out all DOS from Windows long back!Ī few files where saved. Windows 7 64 bit reported a “DOS error” in the process. My Platinum 64 GB SD card crash while saving files to an external hard drive.