Well, I wasn’t going to publicize my mistake and return the drives, I was going to repair them. The most common solution offered was to return the drive to the manufacturer for replacement. Of the dozens of pages that I read, no one found a fix for the problem. I Googled around and found that many, many people were running into this problem where the drive starts reporting 0 bytes capacity and can not be formatted. It shows up in the Device Manager as working correctly, without any warnings, for example. Opening the Disk Management component of the Computer Management console shows that the drive is connected, but there is no unallocated space to partition or format. Now, you can unplug your Android device.SanDisk U3 Cruzer Micro USB Device Properties
Click ‘Turn Off’ in order to complete the ejection. An alert will pop up saying ‘Make sure you have unconnected from USB host’. On the Android device access the notifications bar and click ‘Turn off USB Storage’. Right-click the drive and then click ‘Eject’.ģ. Again, locate the drive in Windows Explorer.Ģ. For deleting you can highlight the file and hit ‘Delete’.ġ. Now that you’re inside the SD drive you can add and delete files by dragging and dropping. Once you’ve found it double-click the drive and you’ll be in it.ģ. If you’ve changed your hard drive or added drives you’ll need to do a little more searching but it shouldn’t be too hard to find.Ģ. Generally, on a basic system with one hard drive and one CD/DVD drive the card will show up on the E:/ drive. You can now go into ‘My Computer’ where the SD card should show up as a ‘Removable Disk’. If you don’t want to go through the above process you can always try that.ġ. There are also some auto-mount apps available. Note: Some Android devices come with an auto-mount feature.
Select ‘Mount’ if you want to copy files between your SD card and your computer. On your computer click the notification icon noting the USB connection on your computer.
The message, ‘A USB connected’ and a USB icon should appear on the Android phone.Ģ. Connect the Android device to your computer via a USB connector cable.
This step-by-step How-To shows you how to access your SD card through your Android device on any Windows computer.ġ. SD cards are nice because you can make it accessible on your phone or you can pop it out and work with it on your PC. Most - but not all - Android phones come with a micro SD or SD card slot to expand the memory or just to allow you to put your own music, photos, and videos on the phone.
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