Quiky update to add on to that initial post I shared the SD Formatter...
Original post: https://zkitszo.blogspot.com/2025/10/sd-card-formatter-thats-all.html
I'd been working on some projects and had to load a ..."flash".. sorry... an image of Pi OS onto an SD card of mine. I messed up somewheres with the setup durring boot so I required a new image flashed... but, wait! My SD card now 50mb.. when... it is suppossed to be 256gb. What. Gives?
I am not going to tollerate such a loss of storage space. I didn't dig greatly into exactly the going on's and why the card now shows this pathetic amount of storage.. I can't even flash the image I want if that is the case.
Here's where this simple SD Formatter comes in handy dandy... I am going out on a whim that the boot proscess creates a/ or some partitions when going through the initial settup of the Pi... hence the miss match is storage space- I am sure that's the case.. and tghere are programns to confirm this but I just want to get bac going on my way here and not dilly daddle... Take that SD and the SD Formatter that I had previoussly posted about- the one from the official SD Card site... other formatters don't have this going for them. Find your SD from the drop down... select quick flash(for now, you can do whattever you like another time.) and then there is another button, "Option"... there you see the abillity to chnge the format style... leave it on quick. Juyst under that you have "Format Size Adjustment". Set that to "On". Click ok and go ahead and format. The SD Card's original storage size willl be back. How cool is that? Pretty damn cool, i'd say- no fumblin' round in a partition manager, risking ruining the SD or worse... some other drive... C drive.
Mostly for me to remember, but Windows at times has a lapse in judgement with certain devices, DIY gadgets, peripherals that you maybe trying to connect to- for me, it was my HackRF( I have since stumbled upon a better way to start for the HackF if having driver woes- which I will cover in another post- but keep reading, since this is still good knowledge to know regarding driver issues )- no matter what, my PC could not recognize the HackRF/ or would recognize it, but as a keyboard. I required Windows to apply the correct drivers to the device so that it could be recognized for what it is... a...SDR. A HackRF. Guessing What's Right... Making Assumptions. Getting it Wrong. So, really what we see here is that when connecting that never connected before thing into your PC, Windows is making an assumption on what that thing is, and then applying the best driver that it thinks suites that thing... From experience, and a general rule of life... "assumptions" aren't the b...
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