Formatted my 2gb SDcard to 1gb whoops

[meady100]

I have a 2gb SDcard, used an old card reader to view it on my Macbook, which reported it damaged, and formatted it to 1gb. Awww! Now it only has 1gb capacity, but I can see the other 900mb as unpartitioned in windows disk mangement, but it's just too primitive to let me merge the partitions or in fact do anything! Anyone know a method of formatting it back to 2gb?! Thanks!

 

[guysy]

Right click on the card in my computer, Format > Put the capacity up to 2gb?

Not too sure.

 

[wezzel98765]

Control Panel > Administrator Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management

Have a play about there

 

[H182]

In windows you can't extend partitions. Use disk management to delete the 1gb, then create a new 2gb one on the empty space.

 

[McBunny]

In windows you can't extend partitions. Use disk management to delete the 1gb, then create a new 2gb one on the empty space.

im sure you can in vista and 7 cant you if not plenty of applications that will do it

 

[meady100]

Further reading has revealed that windows does not handle or have any interest in dealing with partitions on removable devices! Thought I had found a small HP utility but it isn't compatible with Win7 or Vista - my search continues. Might try on my Macbook later, but need to find a compatible card reader of course! - Thanks for all the suggestions so far...

 

[ChrisR]

You have to find a reader that'll recgnise it as a full 2 gig and reformat it.

I had the same problem with my old laptop, it took a 2 gig card down to 1 gig.

Only way I could get it back as I didn't have another reader was to format it in my Nokia phone which could read the full 2 gig properly.

 

[The Ironist]

I use acronis true image on pc you might be able to get a trial.

 

[iain187]

you might be able to create an extended partition but i think the easiest way would be copy everything to your pc, format to 2gb then put anything you want back?

 

[meady100]

Thanks for the further suggestions! Im gonna buy a decent card reader and hope that OSX sorts me out I think. Will report back...