zentama.blogg.se - Sd card showing up as 2 drives

Yes it shows it but it wont let you do anything to the partitions just in case. Something fried the controller so you will need a new one or send that one off on warranty. There is no way to fix it and happens sometimes.

If, however in the list you see your card listed as 55mb in total size and have no option to remove or expand it more that means the SD card is broken.

Once you have removed all partitions follow instructions to reload the distro you like.

No operations will be performed until you click APPLY.

Just delete them so you can see a full unallocated 16GB. This will include FAT and EXT and possibly a SWAP.

Best bet is to complete delete any partitions on the SD card.

You should take care to select your SD card from the list of devices as this tool will list all your drives. There are some specific tools for SD cards only but I like to use EaseUS Partition Tool which is free for Windows users. If you want to grow the root filesystem, you can google, or ask specifically, because that question has been answered quite a few times. If you intend to keep for use on the Raspberry Pi, don't bother growing the VFAT partition - it isn't good for much after boot and making it bigger won't make the root filesystem bigger. If you just want to reformat the card for whatever use, reformat it and erase everything on it. Presuming further: You've stuck the card in a Windows machine, and guess what? Windows CANNOT SEE THE SECOND PARTITION, leading you to believe that there's just the one 55 MB VFAT partition. The second one is a much bigger (probably ~2 GB) ext4 partition containing the root filesystem it is mounted by the kernel. The first one is a small (~55 MB) VFAT partition from which the OS kernel is booted. etc.īut let's presume you formatted the card to use a Raspberry Pi-centric distribution such as Raspbian. You did not say much - you did not say what the card was for, etc.