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pietvo · 03-16-2010, 12:44 PM

I tried to format an SD card for FAT32 this morning on my MacBook while the card was in my Boox and the Boox was connected to the MacBook by USB. I could copy files to it, but when I disconnected the Boox it wouldn't show the files. I had bought 2 SD cards so I tried with the other one without formatting. They were default formatted as FAT16, but I prefer FAT32 because it has fewer restrictions. With the FAT16 card it was OK. The Boox could see the files, and I also used it to install new firmware.

I then tried to reformat the first card to FAT16. You can only do this with the command line interface in Mac OS X. However it didn't help. Apparently something in Mac's formatting is incompatible with the Boox. Does anybody know what? I have seen posts about people that did use FAT32 cards in the Boox. But then formatted on Windows.

Eventually I made a disk image from the original card (the second one) with the command line program dd, and copied that to the first card, so that it also became a working FAT16 card again. But I would like to know how to get a properly working FAT32 card.

03-16-2010, 12:44 PM	#1
pietvo Reader Posts: 519 Karma: 24612 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Utrecht, NL Device: Kobo Aura 2, iPhone, iPad	Formatting SD card for Boox on Mac OS X I tried to format an SD card for FAT32 this morning on my MacBook while the card was in my Boox and the Boox was connected to the MacBook by USB. I could copy files to it, but when I disconnected the Boox it wouldn't show the files. I had bought 2 SD cards so I tried with the other one without formatting. They were default formatted as FAT16, but I prefer FAT32 because it has fewer restrictions. With the FAT16 card it was OK. The Boox could see the files, and I also used it to install new firmware. I then tried to reformat the first card to FAT16. You can only do this with the command line interface in Mac OS X. However it didn't help. Apparently something in Mac's formatting is incompatible with the Boox. Does anybody know what? I have seen posts about people that did use FAT32 cards in the Boox. But then formatted on Windows. Eventually I made a disk image from the original card (the second one) with the command line program dd, and copied that to the first card, so that it also became a working FAT16 card again. But I would like to know how to get a properly working FAT32 card.