Photography

Quickie: Fixing Memory Card Corrupted by Balena Etcher

| #diskpart | #windows |


Recently my camera’s memory card was corrupted by Balena Etcher – an oft-recommended Windows app to write images to USB drives. I was using this card because it’s crazy fast, 400MB/s, But after I was done, Windows couldn’t use it. File not found, no permission, etc. It’d create a volume but fail to format.

Nothing worked – Disk Management, diskpart, nothing.

But this did. A quick sequence of commands in diskpart, and it’s functioning as normal again.

diskpart
list disk
select disk X (X is the target)
clean (this fails)
convert gpt (this works)
clean (again)

Now format and use as normal!

--NFG
[ Jan 24 2024 ]
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