Hi folks, Hope you can help. I recently got my daughter a 16Gb Fire Card but when I was loading up some apps I got a memory error. I left it to find out a bit more info but in the meantime she tried it herself, got the error & asked Windows to fix it. The card now only shows 2Gb available space, the amount used before the "fix". I've tried a full format, quick format but still no joy. Any help would be appreciated. stewdent
The card was always 2GB These cards are advertised in Gigabits, there are 8 bits in 1 byte, so 16 Gigabits is 2 Gigabytes Out of curiosity, where did you buy the card? As most stores point this out.
just to be clear, did you format the card using your PC?, or while it was in thr DS? These firecards need to be formatted while in the DS.
woops! Yes, listen to Hanky. I got the wrong end of the stick, thinking you had a different problem. Drop the xmenu back in & play. your card is working normally
Thanks chaps, feel a bit of a git though, just assumed that the 16G Fire Card was actually 16Gb & that something had screwed up. I'm not sure what my daughter did, from what she says she may have run the windows disk checker (scandisk or CHKDSK...) which is what I thought that had screwed the card. I formatted the card in the DS, the quick format using the L+dwn+r+a+b and also the full format (start + select), Windows showed the card - in the DS - as being 2Gb. I bought the card off a friend who had one for their kids, think he got it from a chap in the business, hence no instructions from the retailer. Thanks for the advice guys, really appreciate it. Guess my daughter can have it back now once I've re-loaded the system files. Cheers.
