How Do I Format SD Card Quickly With SD Card Formatter?

SD card formatter plays an important role in the daily life, and has been widely used in every aspect of our life. MiniTool Partition Wizard is the best SD formatter that supports various file systems. Download the freeware to have a try!

Today SD card (including mini SD and micro SD) is widely used in many aspects of our life. For example, we use it on camera, camcorder, PDA, mobile phone, MP3 player, notebook, digital voice recorder, game console, automobile data recorder, etc.

Why Do You Need to Format an SD Card?

• Delete Files: when you want to clean the data on the SD card, you can format the SD card directly.
  
• To Change File System: in order to use the SD card on some devices, you will need to use the appointed file systems. For example, to increase the internal storage space of Android, you need to format the first partition of SD card with FAT32, and the second partition with EXT file system.
  
• To Fix Issues: sometimes, when you try to access the SD card which has a RAW file system, Windows asks you to format it before you can use it. Similarly, if Windows reports "The Disk Structure Is Corrupted and Unreadable", formatting is always the right solution.
• To Kill Viruses: if the SD card is infected by viruses, formatting is a good trying to remove the viruses.

SD Card Formatter

SD card formatter is the tool who developed by SD association to format SD memory card without any headache and data loss. Don't hesitate to use SD formatter if you not technical then check SDCardFormatter.com for step-by-step guide to format SD card easily.

You can download SD card formatter software here.

Built-in SD Card Formatter - Disk Management

Disk Management is the second solution we recommend, because it is easy to access (built-in tool in Windows) and the GUI (Graphical User Interface) is also clear for you to operate. Many disk management tasks such as create volume, delete volume, shrink volume, change drive letter and path can be finished by using this tool.

1. Run "diskmgmt.msc" at CMD. Then the Disk Management utility will appear. Find the SD card you want to format and then select "Format…" from the right-click menu.
   
2. In the format window, customize the volume label, file system, and allocation unit size, choose whether to perform a quick format and enable folder compression, then click "OK".
   
3. Disk Management sends out a warning message which reads "Formatting this volume will erase all data on it. Back up any data you want to keep before formatting. Do you want to continue?" Now click "OK" to format memory card/SD card, which should be finished in a minute if the quick format is selected.