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Old 05-19-2017, 07:59 AM   #21
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If you check the SD Card standards, SDHC SD cards go up to 32GB capacity and use FAT32. Cards larger than 32GB (up to 2TV) are SDXC and use exFat for the file system. I have one friend who has formatted 64GB SD cards wih FAT32 using the EaseUS partition utility but have never tried one in my Kobo ereaders. Even it it worked, I would not trust the card using a non-standard format.
They might come preformatted like that but you can pick whichever filesystem you please. So if formatting with FAT32 solves the issue, there's nothing wrong with doing that.

My WebPortal mod has a ServiceMenu applet that lets you check the internal and sd card for read errors, I think KSM had something similar? With it you could check whether the card is recognized at all (even if unformatted)

Kobo only supports ext2/3/4 filesystems (but not on the SD cards, unless you mod it - I posted a hack for that here, not sure if it still works) and FAT16/FAT32. So anything else like ntfs/exfat/etc. won't work.

Kobo expects the SD card to have a single partition (number 1) with FAT32 filesystem.

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