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From: Firewalker on 11 Jan 2010 19:32
This memory card is actually brand new. It "should" work.
From: Firewalker on 11 Jan 2010 19:36
I suspect somewhere around here is where my problem lies. I went to disk
managemtn after I formatted it the first time. It originally showed the card
had a capacity of 16GB even though only 960MB was available. But, when I
formatted it, that's when the 16GB capacity also turned into 960MB. How do I
delete the partition or see if one is there? The layout says "partition",
but when I right click on the drive, the "delete partition" option is grayed
out.

> My guess is that there is only one partition on the device, and it's
> only 961MB. Use Disk Management to check the partition structure on
> the device. If it's as I suspect, you'll be able to delete the
> existing partition and create a new one that spans the entire device.
>
> --
> Tim Slattery
> Slattery_T(a)bls.gov
> http://members.cox.net/slatteryt
> .
>
From: Firewalker on 11 Jan 2010 19:40
I also suspect that this is a possibility. How do I check? When I received
the card, the card reader was set to lock. So, I made the mistake of
thinking I should format the drive, which caused the capacity to fall to
960MB. But, when I went to disk management, it showed a 16GB capacity
(before I made the next big mistake and formatted again which turned this
capacity to 960MB).

"Paul" wrote:

> Firewalker wrote:
> > I have 16GB microSd card that I just received and after I formatted it on XP,
> > it only says it has a capacity of 961MB. When I put it into my phone, it is
> > also shows as 961MB.
> >
> > I then went into the disk management tool in the control panel and found my
> > disk. The disk still showed up as having a 16GB capacity. So, I figured I
> > could format it from here. Instead, it changed the capacity to also read
> > 16GB.
> >
> > I found a tool that seemed to wipe the card clean (called diskerase from
> > these forums). But, it's still at 961MB. I'm out of ideas now. Any
> > suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> There are such things as counterfeit flash devices, and a major source is Ebay.
>
> Paul
> .
>
From: C.Joseph Drayton on 12 Jan 2010 15:59
Hi Firewalker,

Yes it will work according to the spec sheet for the HTC Tilt 2, it can
read both. What we are seeing is something that happened years ago with
WindowsXP a number of manufacturers like Compaq formatted the disk as
FAT32 on their machines that came pre-installed with WindowsXP. Of
course WindowsXP (original) could read/write NTFS but the manufacturer
chose FAT32. WindowsXP also would not format a partition that was larger
than 32GB (I think that was the number), but it would read and write to
the FAT32 partition that was larger than 32GB if the format was done
with a different program (that is why I looked around and found the
application I gave you the link to.

Sincerely,
C.Joseph Drayton, Ph.D. AS&T

CSD Computer Services

Web site: http://csdcs.site90.net/
E-mail: c.joseph(a)csdcs.site90.net



On 1/11/2010 5:29 PM, Firewalker wrote:
> This sounds like an interesting suggestion, but I need a little help
> understanding. If my phone formats in FAT16 by default, would formatting in
> FAT32 work?
From: Firewalker on 12 Jan 2010 18:36
I ran a chkdsk in DOS on the disk. It looks like it's also showing 1GB.
I'm very worried now. Is it possible for a format to physically alter the
capacity of the drive?
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