SD Card Problems? Blank SD Card? Cannot Mount?

[Kalle Schurtz]

I fixed this on the Samsung Galaxy s4:
These guys are fruitcakes. All you really want is to read your SD card, access your SD card again. I just went all over the NET and could not find a solution for this problem. Then, I just did this simple fix, and it worked for me on my Galaxy S4 Active: I inserted a new SD card, and it would not read it, mount it, etc. You know it. Then I read everywhere, that the standard Filesystem is NTFS, which did not work for me. I took another NTFS SD Card, and my G4 would not read it. So I copied the files off and reformatted the SD cards to (default) FAT32 (with the single file 4GB size restriction) So what? I'll just put several 4 gig files on the card, no problem.
After reformatting these SD Cards, the Galaxy4s would immediately read them, and gave me an option to reformat the 8Gig SD Card even, which I did. It came back with 7.4 Gigs, even more than the reformatting on the computer. This proves to me, that the Filesystem is FAT32 and not NTFS like some fruitcakes declared earlier. peace out.

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! A rooted device can use Paragon to read NTFS. I thought certain devices did have native NTFS support, but I can't find any definitive evidence of that on the web. You're correct, FAT32 is the most universal SD format for Android.

 

[Rukbat]

The universal format is FAT32 (or exFAT for larger cards). Android phones, being Linux-based, can read extfs cards (ext2, ext3, ext4, etc). NTFS is a Microsoft invention and isn't native to almost anything but Windows. Anyone who tells you that NTFS is the "standard" filesystem for anything but Windows should stick to what they know something about - which definitely isn't computers. (Remember, the only thing the internet is the definitive source on is the fact that the internet exists. Anything else you read on the internet has as much chance of being correct as anyone else's opinion, because 99.999% of the internet is nothing but opinion. Including this post.)

 

[B. Diddy]

One of these days, Rukbat, you should compile some of your selected quips from these forums and publish a book!

 

[Rukbat]

Most of them are on the old VBForums, but they're years old.