KLund1 Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 I finally got an SIO2SD. This is my first time using it. I usually use my Ultimate Cart, but need to run an ATR today, and thought I should give this unit a test drive. All I have is a 64GB micro SD in an SD adapter. This is a cheap Chinese card. I figured out how to format it in FAT32, 1K allocations from exfat. I copied the root files/Dir from Lotherick's site. Connect it. I get No Partition on the units screen. Oh, 32 in 1 OS set to XL/XE Looked for some help from google not nothing useful. What am I doing wrong. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manterola Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 Maybe the SD card is too big? I mean it is sdhc. Not sure, but it's an easy thing to try : get an old sd card not HC, like 1 or 2GB and try again. At least for updating the firmware, I remember I got problems with some high capacities cards. PS. if you are in US you can get very cheap small capacity cards in Gamestop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KLund1 Posted February 15, 2020 Author Share Posted February 15, 2020 Thanks, off to GameStop, 512mb, or 1gb = .99ea Then try again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 exFat is way different from FAT32 and probably not supported. Normally FAT32 can't be formatted to more than 32 Gig in Windows. You could try partitioning it. Also there's the SDXC standard that came later on in the life of SD cards, not sure if SIO2SD supports that either. Which could be problematic since it's pretty hard these days to find low capacity SD cards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DrVenkman Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 If you're on Windows, open up Windows' Disk Management tool, split the card into two or three smaller partitions and format one of them. That should take care of any sizing problems, I would think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfollowell Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 You can format cards bigger than 32GB as FAT32 using a Windows GUI version of fat32format. You can get it at the link I've attached. That still doesn't mean your SIO2SD will work with cards that large though. I have no idea what the size limitation is for those devices. http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KLund1 Posted February 25, 2020 Author Share Posted February 25, 2020 Thanks, I got some smaller SD's from GameStop and they work well. But will keep this in mind if/when I lose one of these SD's. My SD's card seem to 'disappear' regularly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manterola Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 I am glad that no HC cards solved the problem. I got some back ups for myself as well, last time I stopped by a GameStop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 SIO2SD supports SD and SDHC. But 64GB is SDXC, so this is NOT supported! (Afaik, the max. for SDHC is 32GB.) SIO2SD works with FAT16 and FAT32, but not with ex-FAT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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