[SOLVED] Need help recovering space on an sd card

[banditgeneral4]

I have a 256gb SD card. When I put it in the pc it says please insert disk into drive. When I check disk management it says that it only has 239.08GB of unallocated space. When I click on create new simple volume, nothing happens. How can I recover all of my space to use my card?

 

[rgd1101]

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...of-229gb/45c42a5a-3769-4f01-906a-9b62b7088914

no error when you try to format it?

 

[USAFRet]

I have a 256gb SD card. When I put it in the pc it says please insert disk into drive. When I check disk management it says that it only has 239.08GB of unallocated space. When I click on create new simple volume, nothing happens. How can I recover all of my space to use my card?

That is normal and what it is supposed to be.

"256GB" is reported in Windows as 239GB
Just like "1TB" is reported as 1.81TB.
500GB is reported as 465GB

You have lost NO space.
Base 2 vs Base 10
Computer vs Human.

ALL storage devices are like this.

 

[banditgeneral4]

That is normal and what it is supposed to be.

"256GB" is reported in Windows as 239GB
Just like "1TB" is reported as 1.81TB.
500GB is reported as 465GB

You have lost NO space.
Base 2 vs Base 10
Computer vs Human.

ALL storage devices are like this.

Thanks. I still can't access the storage. On Disk Management it still is striped and says that it has unallocated space. In explorer it says no volume. When I click on create new simple volume, nothing happens. How can I get to where I can put stuff on the card?

 

[USAFRet]

Thanks. I still can't access the storage. On Disk Management it still is striped and says that it has unallocated space. In explorer it says no volume. When I click on create new simple volume, nothing happens. How can I get to where I can put stuff on the card?

Commandline function diskpart, and the clean command.
Be absolutely sure you know which drive you are accessing. Once you hit Go, that is a one way street.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/format-hard-drive-command-prompt,37632.html

Drive no longer accessible? Use DiskPart to fix it on Windows 10.

This guide will show you how to use DiskPart with Command Prompt to clean and properly format a drive to fix file corruption and other logical issues on Windows 10.

www.windowscentral.com

 

[USAFRet]

On Disk Management it still is striped

Is this a new device?

 

[banditgeneral4]

Is this a new device?

It doesn't show up in CMD line. If I run list volume then it shows up, but it says unusable.

 

[banditgeneral4]

It doesn't show up in CMD line. If I run list volume then it shows up, but it says unusable.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...of-229gb/45c42a5a-3769-4f01-906a-9b62b7088914

no error when you try to format it?

When I try to format it says "Windows was unable to format the drive"
When I try to disk management and create new simple volume, it does nothing. No error or anything, the dialogue box doesn't show.

 

[USAFRet]

It doesn't show up in CMD line. If I run list volume then it shows up, but it says unusable.

What does it show with List disk

 

[banditgeneral4]

The problem has been fixed. Thanks for all the help.