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SD Card fails to format using official SD Card format tool on Windows (self.raspberrypi)

submitted 5 months ago by JackbyDev to c/[email protected]

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I don't get a very detailed error message but it fails and tells me to try reinserting it. I've tried a few times. It fails at different percentages sometimes. Any thoughts or ways to get a more detailed error message? I have Mac and Linux too.

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[–] JackbyDev 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

There's a small chance something is wrong with my computer and not the SD Card, or it's just a bad coincidence. My "games" HDD has been getting super slow for downloading so I'm running CHKDSK. It's been going got 11 hours now and is only 17% done with stage 4. But it's actually making progress slowly but surely. It might just be a failing hard drive but it makes me wonder if my motherboard is making disk writes in general get fucky? Idk. I feel like I would've noticed major problems sooner if that were the case though.

Update: It's been over 36 hours and it's still chking that dsk! Slowly but surely.