topic Re: Camera won't format 512GB SD card in Camera Accessories

Camera won't format 512GB SD card

Aflower — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 12:59:06 GMT

I bought a 512 GB Sandisk card and it is not wanting to format with my camera. It keeps telling me to instert new card. Is the GB too big or why would it not format?
Card and slot are clean and it is a brand new card.

Re: SD Card

Peter — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 03:35:19 GMT

Does your camera support SD (2GB), SDHC (32GB) or SDXC (more than 32GB)?

Re: SD Card

jrhoffman75 — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 12:03:46 GMT

@Aflower wrote:
I bought a 512 GB Sandisk card and it is not wanting to format with my camera. It keeps telling me to instert new card. Is the GB too big or why would it not format?
Card and slot are clean and it is a brand new card.

What is the model of your camera?

Re: Camera won't format 512GB SD card

kvbarkley — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 14:08:17 GMT

For example, My T6S has a section of the manual that says this:

So I can use SD, SDHC and SDXC cards. Going to the SD card wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SD_card

Where we find:

So my camera can use up to 2 TB, but I would never use one that large, it is usually best to use multiple smaller cards (I tend to use 32 GB) so that all your eggs are not in one basket.

Also, make sure it is a full size card and not a micro card with adapter.

Re: Camera won't format 512GB SD card

normadel — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 02:06:27 GMT

That's an ungodly large memory card for a camera. If your camera works with other cards, like maybe up to 128GB, stop there.

Besides, if you want that big a card so you can keep huge numbers of photos on it, you are going about things the wrong way. You SHOULDN'T keep huge amounts of data on a little old SD card. Cards fail. Cards can get corrupted in the camera. And you lose your huge amount of data in one fell swoop. Is is a better practice to have multiple cards of a more reasonable size with you. Your card data should be moved to a computer frequently, and backed up from there if it is important to you. Don't think of your camera as a portable photo album.

Re: Camera won't format 512GB SD card

BookiiRivas — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 08:26:32 GMT

Or, you can try formatting your newly purchased SD card on the computer. disable the write protection, connect the card to your PC, press Win+E, find and locate your SD card, right-click on it, select format, select NTFS as file system, click on format. Then, you should be good to go.

Re: Camera won't format 512GB SD card

Tronhard — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 08:51:05 GMT

What model is your camera?

is the card full-size or a micro SD with adapter?

What brand is it and where did you purchase it?

Re: Camera won't format 512GB SD card

shadowsports — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 08:57:30 GMT

The user who started this thread visited once, posted and has never returned.

Re: Camera won't format 512GB SD card

kvbarkley — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 13:09:23 GMT

NTFS? For a camera? Not likely. Try FAT32.