Hardware SD card problem

[ryuuji89]

I have a SDHC Transcend 16 GB class 10 but the Wii U does not recognize it.
It's visible under Windows10/Linux and it is also formatted as FAT32.
Tried many times but no success to make it work under Wii U.

Any ideas ?

 

[Garou]

try opening your SD card on windows disk management and see how many partitions in there

 

[ryuuji89]

It shows only 1 partition
Fat32 Healthy (Primary partition) 14,72 Gb

 

[Garou]

okay, try this

so somehow there was this random unallocated space of about 7mb so i wiped the whole drive with easus partition manager then formatted to fat 32 with 32kb clusters and then changed it from logical to primary and now it works. weird business.

 

[ryuuji89]

So that partition manager thing is not free makes me wonder if that really solved it ...

 

[Garou]

There is a free version at http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm but no idea of the limitations
but you can try the other solutions like check if it's currently a logical partition (check with windows disk management) or try reformat it using 32kb cluster (with this http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/guiformat.htm)

 

[ryuuji89]

Tried both of them ... not working . I guess will not work

 

[Garou]

okay so I'm out of ideas
maybe it's fake? you can check using h2testw

 

[ryuuji89]

test results

Test finished without errors.
You can now delete the test files *.h2w or verify them again.
Writing speed: 11.7 MByte/s
Reading speed: 30.2 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4

 

[Frostbite189]

Try a program called: sd formatter

 

[ryuuji89]

Tried that also ... formatted it using all the combinations possible ... still no sd card in Wii U.
Have a usb stick that works in Wii U but ... loadiine supports only sd cards.
Well I guess no backup games for me.

 

[Frostbite189]

Tried that also ... formatted it using all the combinations possible ... still no sd card in Wii U.
Have a usb stick that works in Wii U but ... loadiine supports only sd cards.
Well I guess no backup games for me.

Have you tried doing all we told ya but on a different pc???

Maybe just maybe the sd is fine but your PC is not doing things well.

 

[ryuuji89]

Have sd card reader only on one (the laptop), don't have card reader for the desktop computer.
I doubt that would make any difference.
Have another laptop without hdd but there is no software for linux so I can use live usb stick....

 

[Witalka_Shelby]

Ohh man this thread.. Helped me a Lot..
My wii u dont find any sd card.. The problem was the primary part..
Ps.. Use this tool.. Freeware..

 

[ryuuji89]

What was the problem with the primary partition ?

 

[Witalka_Shelby]

When you format.. you can chose "primary or logical" .. By me was it from begining on logical.. After formating primary the wii u can read
My Sd Card Setup:
Name : U
Type : Primary
File Sys : Fat32
Cluster : 32kb

 

[ryuuji89]

It does not work for me...