Get full capacity from Raspberry Pi SD card
I am the proud owner of a Raspberry Pi ( Wikipedia ) :). After I installed and played for some time with Raspbian I wanted to use my 8 GB SD card in a Windows laptop. So I connected the SD card to my Windows laptop which got me a message telling me to format the card. And that is what I tried to do. But to my surprise I could only select 64 MB capacity in the format program! Where was the rest of my card?!!! After some googling I found out that this was caused by the installation of Linux. Linux uses different file systems (ext2, ext3 etc) than Windows and creates its own partitions which Windows can not see. Only the 64 MB FAT32 partition is seen by Windows. So how do you get back the full capacity of your card? What you have to do is: - Clean any partition information from the card using diskpart. - Use SD Formatter to low format the card Instructions Step 0 This is the most important step of all! ...