How Do You Format An Sd Card From Fat To Fat32?


Rocksteady

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Anyone know how to do this? I have a Sandisk 1 GB SD card for my GP2X, however I can't seem to update the firmware due to the fact that it's formated to FAT and GamePark Holdings clearly says it needs to be in FAT32. Please help.

Oh and when I do fix this problem can I go straight from 1.2 to 2.0? Or do I need to go from 1.2 to 1.4 and then to 2.0? Thanks again.
 
Rocksteady posted on May 1 2006 at 04:32 AM said:
Anyone know how to do this? I have a Sandisk 1 GB SD card for my GP2X, however I can't seem to update the firmware due to the fact that it's formated to FAT and GamePark Holdings clearly says it needs to be in FAT32. Please help.

Oh and when I do fix this problem can I go straight from 1.2 to 2.0? Or do I need to go from 1.2 to 1.4 and then to 2.0? Thanks again.

Solved the problem?
 
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Rocksteady posted on May 1 2006 at 04:32 AM said:
Anyone know how to do this? I have a Sandisk 1 GB SD card for my GP2X, however I can't seem to update the firmware due to the fact that it's formated to FAT and GamePark Holdings clearly says it needs to be in FAT32. Please help.

A simple right click should do the trick shouldn't it??? H.G.
 
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I tried FAT32, as was suggested. Because I use Windows XP with NTFS, it doesn't like FAT32, in fact it bricked one of my SD cards. I reformatted to FAT and it works perfectly. Been using FAT on my GP2x for months now. STAY WITH FAT (not FAT32)!
 
Rocksteady posted on May 1 2006 at 05:34 PM said:
Stay with FAT? How can you upgrade to 2.0 Firmware on FAT and not FAT32?
I managed it yesterday, no issues. Only downside of FAT is that you use 256Mb/512Mb/1Gb cards only. Windows XP does not like it when you format an SD card on an external card reader on FAT32, but it works perfectly on FAT. Might be because my hard disk is NFTS. Anyway, the GP2x works fine on FAT.
 
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daclassicgamingmaster - I can only relay my experiences. FAT32 bricked my SD card; writing to it get tempremental, I got corrupted files on it, writing speeds were up and down; and then failed (causing bricking). I then reformatted my other SD cards to FAT and have been using them, error free, ever since.
 
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