Will factory reset affect my Sd Card?

[OneJoshBauer]

Hi everyone, new here and have a question about doing a factory reset on my phone. I did some searches before I joined but could not find an exact answer.

I have a Galaxy S7 Active running Android 7.0 . About a month ago I purchased a Sandisk 32gb micro SD card and installed it. I would like to reset my phone, but I want to make sure the reset does not harm the SD card before I do so. Is there anything I need to do to the SD card or any precautions I should take before I do the Reset? Will it damage the card?

Any info would be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

[chanchan05]

Tulog can just remove the card before you reset, unless you enabled adoptable storage.

 

[Rukbat]

You could remove the card, but a factory reset doesn't do anything to the card. (And since Samsung doesn't use adoptable storage, that wouldn't apply here. On a phone that does, since the card is logically part of internal storage, you have to leave it in when you do a factory reset - and the card will be reset. If you take it out, reset, then put the card back in, you'll have to reformat it, and you'll lose everything on it anyway.)

 

[OneJoshBauer]

Thank you both for the response. I guess I'll go ahead and leave the card in and reset my phone. Thanks again!!!

 

[Cindy khan]

Hi so what happened when you did the reset did you get back everything on ur sd?