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MicroSD Card Setup (Windows Guide)
For the sake of keeping this guide simple, the steps are the exactly the same for people with MicroSD Cards smaller than 32 gigabytes.
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- Press the "Start" button and wait until the process is complete.
- You can now eject the MicroSD Card, and move on to the next page.
+ - For a Linux guide, please look below.
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MicroSD Card Setup (Linux Guide using GParted)
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This guide is for MicroSD cards under 32GB.
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For the further sake of simplicity, a GUI tool is intentionally used. You may also want to back up any important files on your MicroSD card before formatting.
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+ - as the Windows guide specifies, plug your MicroSD card into your computer.
+ - Update your Linux system with
sudo apt update
, sudo pacman -Syu
, or sudo yum update
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+ - Install GParted with
sudo apt install gparted
, sudo pacman -Sy gparted
, or sudo yum install gparted
, and run it with root priviledges with sudo gparted
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+ - Select your device in the dropdown located at the top right corner of the GParted homescreen.
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+ - Right click the partition, select "Format to", then select "fat32".
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+ - Click the green check mark to apply all operations, then "Apply" at the warning dialog. Let it do it's thing.
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+ - Click "Close" when the operation is completed. Now you're free to move onto the next page!
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More ways to format for Linux can be found here. This Linux guide is also based off of it!
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MicroSD Card Setup (MacOS Guide Using DiskUtility)
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This works for 32GB MicroSD cards, and possibly >32GB MicroSD cards.
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+ - Insert your MicroSD card into your MacOS device.
+ - Open Disk Utility, which is preinstalled on MacOS.
+ - Select the MicroSD card, and click on "Erase" in the top toolbar. Make sure it's the correct MicroSD card!
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+ - Give the MicroSD card a name, and format it for "MS-DOS (FAT)", otherwise, "ExFAT" may be sufficient.
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+ - If you want to securely format the MicroSD card (make it harder to recover data), open "Security Options" and adjust the slider to your preference.
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+ - Finally, click "Erase" to format your MicroSD card.
+ For more ways to format your MicroSD card on MacOS, This site is worth a visit. This MacOS guide is also based off of it!