Help Reformat SanDisk SD32Gb

[Rick Wymer]

I have a ANS ACK2326 Android 12 Smart phone. Issue:
I'm using a SanDisk SD32Gb that's setup for Internal Storage and wanted to reformat to Portable. I read a Walkthrough and Unmounted the Card, then Remounted it, but it's still stuck in Internal Storage? Can it even be moved? Maybe get another Card? Any ideas ?
Thanks

 

[ocnbrze]

I have a ANS ACK2326 Android 12 Smart phone. Issue:
I'm using a SanDisk SD32Gb that's setup for Internal Storage and wanted to reformat to Portable. I read a Walkthrough and Unmounted the Card, then Remounted it, but it's still stuck in Internal Storage? Can it even be moved? Maybe get another Card? Any ideas ?
Thanks

go to settings>storage>>format sd card as portable. keep in mind anything stored on the sd card will be erased.

 

[svim]

I have a ANS ACK2326 Android 12 Smart phone. Issue:
I'm using a SanDisk SD32Gb that's setup for Internal Storage and wanted to reformat to Portable. I read a Walkthrough and Unmounted the Card, then Remounted it, but it's still stuck in Internal Storage? Can it even be moved? Maybe get another Card? Any ideas ?
Thanks

Try reformatting the microSD card back to Portable again, then power off your phone. Remove the card from your phone, start it up normally again, wait for the start process to finish so you see the Home page again, then power off your phone again a second time. Now go through the process to insert the card and start up your phone to see if your card is now Portable again.

 

[Rick Wymer]

go to settings>storage>>format sd card as portable. keep in mind anything stored on the sd card will be erased.

Went to Storage and found SD but No Option for Reformat

 

[Rick Wymer]

Try reformatting the microSD card back to Portable again, then power off your phone. Remove the card from your phone, start it up normally again, wait for the start process to finish so you see the Home page again, then power off your phone again a second time. Now go through the process to insert the card and start up your phone to see if your card is now Portable again.

Will try this later

 

[ocnbrze]

Went to Storage and found SD but No Option for Reformat

did you press the sd option? it should give you the choice to format the card.

 

[Rick Wymer]

did you press the sd option? it should give you the choice to format the card.

Like I said earlier I wasn't given the Option to Format

 

[ocnbrze]

Like I said earlier I wasn't given the Option to Format

so if you select sd card, what happens? it should give you the option to format. if it does not, then something is wrong. and did you try @svim 's suggestion?

 

[Rick Wymer]

so if you select sd card, what happens? it should give you the option to format. if it does not, then something is wrong. and did you try @svim 's suggestion?

No, I haven't Dismounted the SD Card yet as suggested. I did slide the SD Card out then back in but it still showed using it as Internal Storage.
Right now trying to get over the Flu.... Will give it a shot as soon as I'm Up and around.

 

[Rick Wymer]

WOW, been awhile since I was Here. Well I got this Fixed, I Dismounted the SanDisk Card and installed a Samsung PRO 125GB and set it up as Portable, probably a bit on the Overkill side but should take care of My Storage. Thanks to All for your Assistance ‍, much appreciated!!

 

[Windroid]

Samsung PRO 125GB [...] probably a bit on the Overkill side but should take care of My Storage. Thanks to All for your Assistance ‍, much appreciated!!

You think that's overkill? I'll probably get a 1 TB (1000 GB) card for my tablet. But my tablet runs two operating systems, Android and Windows, and some of those Windows games eat up a lot of space. My advice: Don't feel too bad about overkill on an SD card, because SD cards have a lot of uses. For example: I'll be reusing my tablet's current microSD card as a USB disk. The card just needs an adaptor to turn it into a stick that plugs into a USB port, rather than a little card that could get lost easily.

Addendum 2023-07-15: Considering that I'm doing work with backing up my files on cloud storage, that 1TB is coming in handy! True, the point is cloud storage is to not have to store files locally. But files still must be downloaded from, and uploaded to, the cloud server. That requires that files be stored temporarily on your computer (and smartphones are computers).