Diskpart to Format SD Card Fat32/Exfat

Overview: Diskpart to Format SD Card? To format an SD card using Diskpart in Windows, open Command Prompt as an administrator, type diskpart, and then use the following commands:

list disk, select disk X (replace X with the SD card's disk number), clean, create partition primary, and format fs=fat32 quick (or format fs=ntfs quick for NTFS).

Finally, type exit to close Diskpart.

Details: How to format sd card using diskpart cmd (fat32, exfat, ntfs)? This content includes the following parts

Diskpart format sd card fat32, exfat, ntfs
Diskpart format raw sd card - repairing raw sd card with diskpart
Diskpart cannot format sd card solutions
How to use diskpart clean for sd card

Diskpart Alternative Format Tool (Better SD Format Option)

There are many free format tools that are better than Diskpart. Free tool IM-Magic Partition Resizer can help format SD card to FAT32 no matter the SD card is less than 32GB or more than 32GB.

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Diskpart format sd card fat32, exfat, ntfs

Here are the steps to format sd card fat32 using diskpart

Open cmd and type diskpart in the Run
Type list volume
Type select volume
Type format fs=fat32 quick (replace fat32 to exfat or ntfs if you want to change the file system to exfat/ntfs.)

If you want to format sd card exfat, step #4 should be replaced by 'format fs=exfat quick' when your sd card is over 32GB;
If you want to format sd card ntfs, step #4 should be replaced by should be 'format fs=ntfs quick' when your sd card is pretty large like over 512GB.

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Note: When your SD card is over 32GB, it cannot be formatted to FAT32 using Windows built-in tools, a third party format tool like IM-Magic Partition Resizer, Rufus or any other format tools can help convert SD card over 32GB to FAT32 file system.

Diskpart Format RAW SD Card?

When sd card turned raw format, its file system would display: file system raw. Here are two steps you need to repair raw sd card including using diskpart to format raw sd.

#1, Retrieve files from raw sd card when data matters to you before using the diskpart format

Recommend: Download iCare Recovery Pro free to recover files from raw sd card.

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#2, Diskpart format raw sd card

Use the same diskpart cmd to repair raw sd card by the following steps.

Insert sd card to computer with a card reader
run cmd and type diskpart to get started
type list volume
type select volume * (replace * with your raw sd card drive letter)
type 'format fs=fat32'

If it failed, try the following solutions.

Diskpart Unable to format sd card solutions

When diskpart cannot format sd card, there are some other nessary steps that need to be added in the diskpart format process.

#1 - Add clean, create partition primary in diskpart command line

And the steps shall be changed to the following

Insert sd card to computer with a card reader
run cmd and type diskpart to get started
type 'list volume'
type 'select volume *' (replace * with your raw sd card drive letter)
type 'clean' (required step when diskpart was unable to format sd card)
type 'create partition primary' (required step when diskpart was unable to format sd card)
type 'format fs=fat32'

#2 Or you may go with the steps in the following photo.

Insert sd card to computer with a card reader
run cmd and type diskpart to get started
type 'list disk'
type 'select disk * (You don't have to type list volume since sd card shows as a disk * here)
type 'attributes disk clear readonly' to remove format failure factor.
type 'clean'
type 'create partition primary'
type 'format fs=fat32'

Format fs=fat32 or format fs=fat32 quick? With or without quick in the command line is the one that you need it to do a quick format or not.

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