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Problems with format of SD card?

Kestrel

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In case it may be of interest to this community.

I have a few different drones, including a couple of evos. I also have a nice 3d printer. Both of the Autels, and the printer, choked on cards formatted with OS-native formatting tools (tried MacOS as well as Windows). When working on the printer, I eventually learned that the solution was to format the card using a free tool the SD card association makes available (presumably because this problem is not rare and they are tired of people blaming it on the cards themselves). This tool solved my problem with my printer and my drones.

It is available here at: sdcard.org.

Hope that helps anyone experiencing this issue.
 
Great tip. Got my SD card back in working condition.
Super tip many ,many thanks.
 
New EVO Nano Plus owner and couldn't work out why some of my SD cards would not be recognised in the drone, but only one other would.

Despite formatting (in Windows 11) with matching format to the "good" one, and trying exFAT and FAT32 (which should both work) and matching parameters for the "good" one.
Also tried firmware update on drone (which I could not do without a working SD card as the drone needs it before allowing OTA updates via controller).

SOLUTION
Format the card in an android-type device such as a mobile phone, tablet or (in my case) I used a REOLINK security camera.

Then place in drone .., this worked for all 3 "dud" cards.
 

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