SD card problem(?)

[Shinnen]

Hey all,
I have an 8gig sd card that wasn't always working; so I decided to wipe it and start over. When I partition it (fat32 for my camera), there remains a 7.84 mb unallocated partition. Is this normal?
Thanks,
..... john

 

[johnb35]

Are you letting your camera do it? Normally if a card needs formatted then the camera will detect it when its inserted.

 

[Shinnen]

Yes, but that's not my concern. I'm really wondering if the 7.84 mb partition is a result of the formatting process, or is there something on the card that shouldn't be there?
....... john

 

[johnb35]

Probably has something to do with the way the camera formats it. Don't know for sure though. Would have to know model of camera and research it.

 

[spirit]

I'm pretty sure the 32GB cards I put in my Nikon D3200 show up as 29GB in Windows and the 64GB ones show up as about 59GB - how big is yours showing up as in Windows? It should be about 7.5GB.

 

[Laquer Head]

I'm pretty sure the 32GB cards I put in my Nikon D3200 show up as 29GB in Windows and the 64GB ones show up as about 59GB - how big is yours showing up as in Windows? It should be about 7.5GB.

Any HDD, SSD, Memory card is going to come with less than the advertised capacity..its always been this way.

Some memory cards, however, do seem to have a pre-formatted portion, just like system reserved part on a normal HDD.

 

[spirit]

Any HDD, SSD, Memory card is going to come with less than the advertised capacity..its always been this way.

Some memory cards, however, do seem to have a pre-formatted portion, just like system reserved part on a normal HDD.

Yeah I know. Can't tell if the user is questioning why the 8GB card isn't showing up as exactly 8GB or if there's something else that's being asked.

At the end of the day, memory is cheap, especially when buying a card as small as 8GB. If you're concerned, try another card out.

 

[Laquer Head]

Yeah I know. Can't tell if the user is questioning why the 8GB card isn't showing up as exactly 8GB or if there's something else that's being asked.

At the end of the day, memory is cheap, especially when buying a card as small as 8GB. If you're concerned, try another card out.

People worry and get bent out of shape about trivial things. For the cost of flash memory these days, I'd toss the card in the trash and buy a new one with 32gb, 64gb..etc and be done with it.

 

[beers]

Any HDD, SSD, Memory card is going to come with less than the advertised capacity..its always been this way.

I always found it a base10 vs base2 problem.

32,000,000,000 bytes / 1024^3 ~= 29.8 GiB

 

[Laquer Head]

I always found it a base10 vs base2 problem.

32,000,000,000 bytes / 1024^3 ~= 29.8 GiB

Look at you all learned and stuff!

 

[spirit]

I always found it a base10 vs base2 problem.

32,000,000,000 bytes / 1024^3 ~= 29.8 GiB

Sounds about right to me. I think I remember 8GB cards showing up as about 7.5GB or so.

 

[Shinnen]

Hi,
Sorry about all the confusion. This is all before I put the card into the camera. When I create a fat32 partition on a wiped 8 gig card (using EaseUS partition manager); besides the fat32 partition, there shows up a 7.84mb partition. I'm just curious to know if this is normal.
.... john