Reformat SD card

[Carrot Museum]

I added an SD card to my Nokia 4.2 running Android 11 with a view to making it available to store offline maps, music and photos.

I did not really understand the terminology and it was formatted as internal storage. I now think that was wrong and want the card to be able to be used a portable storage.

At the moment I cannot add anything to the sd card via a USB connection to a PC. In fact when I connect a USB all I see in Nokia 4.2 and cannot access any other files.

Under Settings - Storage I can see Internal shared storage (total used 19gb of 64gb)

Then underneath SD card 1.3gb used of 32gb

When I select the SD card is show 1.30gb in large blue letters and below -
Apps - 0.00gb
System - 0.35gb
Cached data 0.00gb

The phone has 32gb of shipped internal storage, and the SD card is a 32gb. Hence the 64gb figure above.

So my question is how do I safely uninstall and reformat the SD card. Then I can use it totally for portable storage, able to be changed via USB where necessary.

I have only taken one photo and downloaded one offline Gmap since installing the sd card.

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! There should be an option in the Settings>Storage​ menu to change the card to Portable Storage. Tap the SD card listed in that menu and look for an option there.

 

[Carrot Museum]

Nokia 4.2 running Android 11

I fitted an sd card and (by accident) formatted it as internal drive. I have not added any apps or photos since I did it, all I have done is downloaded a Google offline map.

How do I change the format of the sd card so that it can be used for portable storage (external) which I can then use to add files via a pc?

Is anything lost or broken by doing a simple re-format?

 

[B. Diddy]

I merged your threads. As I previously suggested, is there an option in the Storage menu to change the card to Portable Storage?