Help with new pandora and SDcard

[khunkao]

I just got the new Pandora and bought a 128GB SDXC SanDisk card

Unfortunately I have been having problems formatting it.  I'm only getting 23GB free with FAT32?

Is this not compatible or am I doing something wrong in the formatting process?  I've tried formatting on a Windows XP system with the SD Card formatting tool as well.  Made sure XP has the SDXC compatibility update from Microsoft too.

When I try to "Create a Pandora SD Card" it asks me for root password and I don't have that. 

Help!

 

[Linux-SWAT]

The SD tool will reformat as extFAT.

You need to use GParted to reformat the card as FAT32.

Better use the latest Live-CD:

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php

Let 16M free before the start of the partition.

 

[khunkao]

Worked!  Thanks!

 

[danielo515]

For me worked with the pandora's gparted

 

[CocoCreekFisherman]

Why is it necessary to format a brand new SD card? Sorry but I don't understand.

 

[Null]

^ SDXC cards come formatted with exFAT which the Pandora doesn't currently support, hence the need for reformatting the SD card.

 

[Link]

Why is it necessary to format a brand new SD card? Sorry but I don't understand.

I took care of this on your order for you, as per our phone discussion.  That's why the cards arrived opened. 

 

[CocoCreekFisherman]

Why is it necessary to format a brand new SD card? Sorry but I don't understand.

I took care of this on your order for you, as per our phone discussion.  That's why the cards arrived opened. 

Thanks Link. I remember now.

Unit is supposed to come tomorrow i am excited.