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1-put the card in your pc if windows detects it you will here a ding upon insertion.
2- R-click the start menu (Win 10/11) select disk management.
3-in the window that appears, find you sd card in the list. R-click & select delete volume.
4-R-click your sd-card again & select creat new volume.
5- follow the prompts until you get to format type & select exfat file system.
When the process is completed, put the card back into your Deck. It should be able to read it now. It may ask you to format it again, just do it as it should (unless there's some other issue with the card or the reader in the Deck) be able to do so this time.
the reason why it shows up on your windows pc is because the software thats installed to trick the system is made for windows. thats why it fails during the linux test.
its obvious you dont know how fake sd cards work and thats okay. go educate yourself on it
It has nothing to do with the operating system. It also isn’t software that is installed. It is the firmware on the SD card.
And it doesn’t just “fail on Linux”. SteamOS formatting in game mode is programmed to use f3 to validate the flash storage. You can still partition and format a fraudulent card on Linux and the same thing will happen as on Windows. Just as you can also use H2testw on Windows to test and validate an SD card
Samsung and Sandisk are the two largest SD/microSD card makers and as such are the most counterfeited. Amazon is always a gamble with getting flash drives from and I'd only recommend getting them if they are listed specifically as "Shipped by and Sold by Amazon".
Personally I'd only recommend getting flash drives either locally in a reputable physical retail store or alternatively online directly from the manufactures online store.
Upon receiving any flash drive I'd also recommend running f3probe (if you're on Linux) or H2testw (if you're on Windows) on the drive to verify its capacity is correct.
Steam Button> Power > Switch to Desktop > Open KDE Partition Manager > Delete old partition > Create New ext4 Partition > apply. Enjoy
This has nothing to do with the conversation. The OP noted that when formatting the microSD card via the Steam Deck in game mode, which performs an f3probe validation of the flash media to verify the reported capacity matches the actual capacity, it failed with the validation error message when the card fails the f3probe. This is either due to the card being significantly damaged or, more likely, a fraudulent flash card.
All you are telling them to do is to ignore that it failed f3probe (and is either a failing or fraudulent card) and manually partition & format it. That is a poor recommendation.
Again, fake/fraudulent flash cards have a modified firmware which does a few things
This is typically done by using an 8GB - 32GB flash and then spoofing it to be a 256GB, 512GB, or 1TB flash card. If you try to write 40GB worth of smaller 512MB files to the disk, and then after doing so try to read/open the first files you've written to the disk they will be "corrupt" because in reality that data has been overwritten.