SD card format error possible fix

[Lauren]

Ok I opened a brand new card and put it in. It wouldn't work. I tried everything, heres what worked.
Switch to desktop
Click start, system, kde partition manager
Delete the filesystem on the sd card, be careful it's not your internal, create a new, fat32, click the check, apply settings.
Switch back to gaming mode,
Take the card out, put it back in. If the icon is on the top bar, do it again, you don't want to see the sd card icon.
Steam, settings, system, format SD card
It'll chime if it works.
This is what worked for my husband.

[psymin]

Yep. Good advice :)

For best results, format the SD card in Game Mode (default UI)
Steam -> Settings -> Storage

If you can't format it there, you can use the tool mentioned (KDE Partition Manager, from the start menu in desktop mode) and wipe out the partition table for the SD card and try again. (However, don't wipe out any other partitions, you can break the deck.)

For reference, my SD card device shows up as /dev/mmcblk0

The Steam Deck devices shows up as /dev/nvme0n1pX (Phison)

[ba0701]

Diposting pertama kali oleh psymin:

Yep. Good advice :)

For best results, format the SD card in Game Mode (default UI)
Steam -> Settings -> Storage

If you can't format it there, you can use the tool mentioned (KDE Partition Manager, from the start menu in desktop mode) and wipe out the partition table for the SD card and try again. (However, don't wipe out any other partitions, you can break the deck.)

For reference, my SD card device shows up as /dev/mmcblk0

The Steam Deck devices shows up as /dev/nvme0n1pX (Phison)

There is a thread on here (a couple of them I believe), which explains everything on what has been found to be the best way to format these cards. As a result of personally participating in some of that testing, I found the best results was to format the cards on my Windows PC, using the free version of the Minitool Partition Wizard. Testing was done using several methods, and the best performance several of us found was to use that method.

Formatting using KDE worked, the vast majority of the time, but those cards did not perform as well as the cards formatting with the method I just described, even after running the trim that was requested in the thread.

Here is one of the threads I am mentioning, best of luck to you:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1675200/discussions/0/3269061071528807540/?tscn=1660756692

[DerekGatz]

i have tried this a dozen different ways. so frustrating,

[DerekGatz]

mine will still show the sd card icon everytime i take it out and put it back in, it does not work for me, i got a cheap amazon sd card though.

[Mr.Purge]

so i been trying to get my sd card to format to the deck, went on pc formatted to fat 32, plug sd card into the deck, went to settings, format, then here comes the fun, it will ask if i want to format, then goes to testing, formatting then nothing. i'm using a cheap microcenter branded sd card