Best SD Card Format Tool

Cara Smith
4 min readDec 4, 2020

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Under normal circumstances, you can free format an SD card, USB flash drive, external hard drive, or some other storage devices with Windows built-in tool (Disk Management/Windows Explorer/Diskpart) easily.

But in some complex cases, you might need a third-party SD card format Software to help you do this job successfully.

Here we list some such cases

  1. Fix SD card not formatted error for reuse
  2. Repair corrupted, unrecognized, or inaccessible SD card
  3. Change file system, raw to NTFS, FAT32 to NTFS, etc.
  4. Restore SD card to original size or full capacity
  5. Remove write-protection of the SD card
  6. Clean up unknown malware or virus
  7. Erase data for privacy protection
  8. Format SD card for optimal performance

There are many format tools for memory Card and USB drives.

For example, HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool, MMC Format tool, Panasonic SD Format Tool, Urescue Format Tool, SD Formatter, etc.

Here we would like to recommend you EaseUS free partition software.

It allows formatting the disk partition and other external storage devices like SD card, USB drive easily in all complex cases.

For example, format write-protected SD card, USB flash drive, format SD card back to the original size, format RAW drive/partition to NTFS without losing data.

It supports all types of memory card from SanDisk, Kingston, Panasonic, Lexar, Samsung, Sony, etc.

Now you can try the following guide to format your Android, Raspberry Pi, 3DS SD card.

It just takes simple steps.

Format SD Card with EaseUS Free SD Card Format Tool

Step 1- Open EaseUS Partition Master. Find your SD card and right-click the partition you want to format and choose “Format”.

Format SD Card with EaseUS Free SD Card Format Tool

Step 2- Set a new partition label, file system (NTFS/FAT32/EXT2/EXT3), and cluster size to the selected partition, then click “OK”.

Format SD Card with EaseUS Free SD Card Format Tool

Step 3- Click “OK” on the pop-up window to continue.

Format SD Card with EaseUS Free SD Card Format Tool

Step 4- Click the “Execute Operation” button on the toolbar, then click “Apply” to start formatting your SD card.

Format SD Card with EaseUS Free SD Card Format Tool

Except for the SD card format tool, the program is also a free disk partition management tool that can help you deal with many tasks such as partition hard drive/memory card/USB, resize partition, settle low disk space problem, manage disk space easily on MBR and GPT disk.

Just try it whenever you need it. Good luck! Just try it whenever you need it. Good luck!

If you have encountered the normal circumstances, such as deleting files to get full capacity, you can use the Windows built-in tool — Disk Management.

Use memory card format tool — Disk Management

It is easy to operate and has many functions, including extend volume, shrink volume, and delete a volume, etc.

Follow the steps to get how to format an SD card(If you try to do the SD card/micro SD card formatting, the card reader is what you need.):

Step 1- Insert your SD card into your computer.

Step 2- Press Windows + X on the computer, choose Disk Management. Right-click the SD card you want to format, choose Format on the pop-menu.

Step 3- In the format window, set the volume label, file system, and allocation unit size. Then click OK.

Easy SD Card Formatter — Windows Explorer

Windows Explorer is another memory card format tool to cope with normal circumstances.

The guide of how to format SD card is:

Step 1- Insert your SD card into the card reader and connect it to your computer.

Step 2- Open File Explorer, choose This PC. Right-click the SD card and choose Format.

Step 3- Customize your file system and volume label. Click Start and OK.

Use SD Formatter

Step 1- Input Diskpart on the search box, right-click it, and click Run as administrator.

Step 2- Type the commands one by one and press Enter.

list disk.
select disk.
list partition.
select partition.
format fs=fat32 quick.
exit.

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Cara Smith

Cara Smith is a 28-year-old tradesperson with an unfortunate habit of bumping off the people around her. She is inspiring and creative.

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Cara Smith
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Written by Cara Smith

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Cara Smith is a 28-year-old tradesperson with an unfortunate habit of bumping off the people around her. She is inspiring and creative.

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