How To Format a MicroSD Card for a 3D Printer 

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Wow. I had my card formatted wrong this entire time and I was wondering why none of my files were able to be read by my printer. I've been stuck on this problem for a whole 3 days. THANK YOU SO MUCH! The stress is all off of my shoulders now thank goodness. I wish there were a superlike button for situations like this. I appreciate you!!

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Thanks buddy, you're a life saver, this has been doing my head in all day as out of nowhere I could no longer view any saved files on my 3d printer

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Great video showing some very important, often overlooked, details for formatting SD cards for 3D printers.

Hi there, just wanted to say thank you. I've tried several times to format a sd card and only following your instructions has it worked for me. So for the first time in my life I'm printing in 3d. GEEETECH A20M

Wow! I have been trying to update my TTF for several days! This was the fix! Thank you very much for making this video!

Holy crap, my printer was suddenly having a problem of not reading the card, and so was my pc but after doing this It WORKED. Thanks alot

Thank you good Sir!! Got my first printer today, Ender 3. Built, printing, and waiting for more. This is the 2nd video I watch and its just been smooth sailing!!

im on a time crunch and couldn't print for weeks and my old disk was full but i couldn't erase it so i got a new sd card with bigger storage and it formatted PERFECTLY. im back printing THANK YOU!!

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This just saved me another 5 hours of troubleshooting. Thank you!

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I bought a 64gb micro sd and this helped so much! THANK YOU!

Thank you so much for this. I was getting the Frozen Ender 3 logo screen everytime I inserted the stock SD card that came with the printer. After I reformatted the SD card, it was working again. Phew...I thought my card reader was broken lol.

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hello thank you so much for this ! i was able to get back to printing thanks to you im a novice so this was great

Thank you! By far the most helpful channel🎉 Had problem with finding my sd card, this solved the problem😊❤

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Thank you!!! I needed this I had no idea why my stupid sd card would mot be read by the printer and this solved the problem!! Instant like.

Thank you for giving me this idea

Wow the allocation unit size was what caused me problems, the default setting was not working. Thanks for showing it in detail so I could get my LCD updated!

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I really think using diskpart is the way to go instead of exclusively using Windows built-in tool. Here are the steps I use. Open a command prompt. Run the command "diskpart" It requires elevated privileges. Accept. Then "list disk" .....followed by "select disk x" where x is the number of the drive. Very important to get this right. You can screw up big time if the incorrect disk is chosen...you have been warned. Then "clean"...then "create partition primary"....this can be followed up with a format command but I don't use that. I then close the window and use the built-in tool to format. This will ensure a proper compliant partition table is created and any partitions errors are wiped out from when it was originally written in the factory. The built in tool is fine for formatting but in my experience can miss fixing the partitions.

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thank you, i just bought another ender 3 pro used and i wanted it to have the same software as my main and this video helped, not sure why the printer is so damn picky about sd card size and all of those other settings it need however it worked, thank you....

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Hero 👍🏻 its was the mbr part of formatting i was missing

Something I think that was missed was what type of Micro SD card works best with the 3D Printers out there. Should it be a SD Card or SDHC or XC card? UHS-I U1 or A1 card? Not a dig but just rather certain types of cards work better with the 3D Printers than others.

This worked for my Elegoo, thanks!

You are super helpful to me thanks. I just go into 3d printing and lost my og 3D printing card while installing the 2.4.7 motherbord lazzy i know but i got a new card and it works like a dream!!

Thank you soooo much because it was saying my sd chip was corrupted then I did this and it fixed it

Thank you very much for the tutorials, I made many attempts and the usb did not work for me, when I saw the tutorial on mac it worked for me.

This was so helpful. Thank you!!!!!

amazing video really helped a lot. Thx!

When formating my card on Windows I don't have the 4096 bytes option only the 8192 b ytes and the one lower from that is 64 bytes. Will it be ok with 8192?

Great video and information, thank you! Now then, how can I adapt my Ender 3 Pro to use a USB stick instead of the Micro SD?

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Get out of my search history I literally just asked this question the other day.

I want to know what sd cards you can use, I've read you can not use sdhc cards

Thank you this was a life saver my micro sd that came with the prrinter decided to die the other night and I couldnt figure out why this one wasn't working either,.

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In my experience, if it was not mentioned in the video, have only the bin file on the memory card and nothing else. Every time I have tried to flash the firmware and simply added the file to the memory card with other files on it, I always get the black screen and then the printer will no longer boot up, even after the memory card is removed. It will fix itself though if you remove all other files from the memory card except for the bin file you are trying to flash.

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Great video. Why did my CR-10 smart pro print fine until yesterday? I printed something and then changed out the filament to print another file and the screen froze and no files showed on the screen. I bought a new SD card and same issue. Formatting new card now and praying. The printer is only 4 months old. Thanks

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Thank you this was about to make me throw the whole printer away.🤣🤣🤷🏾‍♂️

Saved my life

I have started sticking labels with the name of the printer onto my SD cards as some printers eg. the Ender 3 save printer specific data to the card

Hello DV3D, I recently acquired an Ender 3 Pro 3D printer for a family member. However, I encountered an issue as the printer did not come with an SD card. Consequently, I had to purchase one separately. Could you please provide guidance on how to rectify this situation?

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Occasionally after i start a print the printer stops as soon as it is done with the bed leveling step. I'm using a Soval SV03. I will remove the SD, turn off insert SD, turn on, and then everything works again. Hoping maybe formatting the card correctly fixes this for me :) Thank you for the info on this, very helpful!

Another great video like your last one on upgrading ender 3 max. I asked this on last video but not sure you seen it but how would I upgrade with JyersUI and color LCD with a bl touch probe. Thanks again for the great content

I USE A MICRO SD TO MY CELLPHONE AND IT WORKS VERY GOOD, ONLY WITH FILES ANDROID LOST.DIR SCAN (IN THE MICRO SD) FOR MY FOKOOS ODIN F5)

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Ok 😖my neptune 3 should be here tomorrow, i have a ipad pro, can i slice on my pro ? I DL cura but i cant open file, can i print on my ipad pro, i also ordered a adapter that holds a micro card for my ipad pro ? So confused

I have a cr10 v3. And my thermistor is lying to me. The info screen is showing information even though it's cool it's showing high temperature. What could be the cause? And when I print something the extruder gets too hot because it's already high in the info screen and the bed doesn't even get hot. Although I checked all the ports for the voltage and it's also good.

I bought a used V2 if I format the SD card do I need to leave anything on it for the printer to work or can I leave it empty and just put the G Codes on it once I do a firmware upgrade? I'm also installing a biqu microprobe bed level sensor do you know if and what firmware I need for it and how to put it on the printer? Do I need to re put all firmware on it to do it or can I just ad the BQ firmware. Thanks

Having issues with mine. Let's hope this helps

I’m sorry I forgot to Thank You for how to format a 16gig micro SD card for a printer to “see”, So THANK YOU. Since I formatted to fat32 I have no problem

thanks 😁

How did you get to that first screen on your computer???

I used a 4Gb micro SD card for the screen but it wouldn't work for the firmware. My 64Gb micro SD card works for flashing firmware, but not the LCD. Go figure. Keep up the great vids.

Hello, I have a Voxelab Aquila C2 and the only SD card I had for my son ,we lost it. Can I buy an SD card that's already loaded with stuff to print ?

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I'm new to 3d printing. Only been printing for a week and my sd card that came with it now says no files found. I did not copy the files to anywhere else. I have an elegoo neptune 2s. I'm going to get another card but how do I get the files from the old one to the new one or do I not need them?

im having trouble, i dl a file from thingiverse then take that file and copy it to my sd card, but when i go insert the sd card into the 3d printer it wont read the file at all, its like i never put it in there. im using a bambulab p1s, downloading a STL file. i reformated the sd card like this video showed. i want to also add that i am about 1 week into the 3d printing world. thanks

I’ve done everything like you said in the video and my files are still not showing up, is there anything else I can check or should I just get a new SD card all together?

My micro SD card is suck on read only and wont let me reformat. And I cant get it to switch away from read only. The adapter I'm using is a usb stick adapter and it doesn't have a lock on it like the ones that look like larger sd cards.

why MS DOS fat not EXFAT? I'm wanting to reformat a 128gb card, should I format it as an ExFat?

mine doesn't have Fat32 it only has ExFat and ntf

So my sd card when i put it in my computer freezes everything and i got a new sd card but the files i put on it wont show up on my ender 3 s1 if you could help would be greatly appreciated

i have a chromebook and the sd for my anycubic mega pro has the actual manual on the sd and my computer wants to erase the info before reformat like you explained. how do i retain the info before format? it wont even let me open it before format.

when i go in file system there is no option for fat 32 theres only ntfs and exfat what do i do?

Might be an air headed question but what do I do next? I’m getting SD Init Fail

Finally

I will be upgrading my E3V2 firmware to Jyers. I have yet to install my BLTouch, do I have to install the Stock V2 BLTouch firmware, before going to the Jyers BLTouch 5x5? Or will the Jyers BLTouch have everything I need?