{"id":4502,"date":"2022-07-17T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/?p=4502"},"modified":"2022-07-18T15:25:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T20:25:33","slug":"3d-printer-not-reading-micro-sd-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/3d-printer-not-reading-micro-sd-card\/","title":{"rendered":"3D Printer not Reading Micro SD Card"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It looks like some 3D printers can not read GPT microSD cards.  Or SD cards formatted as exFat.  You can fix the problem by converting the SD card to MBR and create a FAT32 partition on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-reddit wp-block-embed-reddit\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-embed-bq\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/3Dprinting\/comments\/j50vy8\/comment\/g7r07bu\/\">Comment<\/a><br> by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Extra-Load\/\">u\/Extra-Load<\/a> from discussion<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/3Dprinting\/comments\/j50vy8\/3d_printer_not_reading_micro_sd_card\/\"><no value><\/a><br> in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/3Dprinting\/\">3Dprinting<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.reddit.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-reddit wp-block-embed-reddit\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-embed-bq\" style=\"height:316px\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/3dshacks\/comments\/4ugheu\/psa_sd_cards_with_a_gpt_partition_table_instead\/\">PSA: SD cards with a GPT partition table, instead of MBR, will not be recognized by the 3DS\/2DS<\/a><br> by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/willrandship\/\">u\/willrandship<\/a> in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/3dshacks\/\">3dshacks<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.reddit.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>These steps are for windows, but the idea is the same on Linux and macOS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Delete the partition on the card<\/li><li>Change to MBR<\/li><li>Create new Fat32 Partition<\/li><li>Use in 3D printer<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Insert the Micro SD card into your computer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next open an Administrator Command Prompt.  Search for cmd, right click, and run as Administrator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Launch the WIndows Disk Part utility with<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">diskpart<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>List the disk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">list disk<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Select the Micro SD card with the following command.  Replace 1 with the proper disk from the above command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">select disk 1<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Now lets clean the disk. Warning! This will delete all data on the SD Card<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">clean<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>We now have a clean SD card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Convert the SD card to MBR<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">convert mbr<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Create a new partition to use<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">create partition primary size=1024<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><em>You should be able to finish this using the Disk Management utility in Windows.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Format new partition and assign drive letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">format fs=FAT32 label=\"3D\" quick\nassign letter=E<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>You should be able to put your gcode files on the sdcard now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like some 3D printers can not read GPT microSD cards. Or SD cards formatted as exFat. You can fix the problem by converting the SD card to MBR and create a FAT32 partition on it. 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