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> The particular weirdness I’m thinking of is I’ve seen more than one drives just seem to die, just because you try and repartition them in Windows. Not even fi
by ObsoleteNerd 7y ago
> The particular weirdness I’m thinking of is I’ve seen more than one drives just seem to die, just because you try and repartition them in Windows. Not even filling the drives up.
I’ve absolutely had this issue. Lots. I can’t figure out why either. I have about half dozen Micro SD cards that now say they’re not formatted, and error when trying to format them in windows. All of them “broke” during a simple repartition in Disk Manager.
I’ve had minor success with some of them using fdisk to “repair” them but others just fail there too.
- userbinator 7y agoHave you tried Linux? It tends to be better at low-level access, or at least give a more informative error message.
- KarlKemp 7y agoI believe newer versions of MacOS dropped support for a specific partition scheme (the name of which I unfortunately don’t quite remember) I spend some time on it just recently because disk manager would not work with the official Ubuntu images.
- astronautjones 7y agoI had a similar issue and clearing the disk (clean) in DISKPART allowed me to re-format through windows. https://neosmart.net/wiki/diskpart/ https://neosmart.net/wiki/diskpart/