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Memory card missing capacity regained by a simple reformat

democrates · 2009-08-05 11:48:21

This might apply to other memory cards: I bought a Nokia 6300 last week from meteor, and though the MicroSD card was marked as 500MB it was only showing 122MB (apparantly typical for FAT16 formatted 128MB cards). It turns out all I had to do was format the card from the phones menu to make the full capacity available. :)…

05-08-2009 12:48pm

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This might apply to other memory cards:

I bought a Nokia 6300 last week from meteor, and though the MicroSD card was marked as 500MB it was only showing 122MB (apparantly typical for FAT16 formatted 128MB cards). It turns out all I had to do was format the card from the phones menu to make the full capacity available.

This phone originally shipped with a 128MB card (still appears under 'specifications' on the meteor website) and when they started shipping 500MB cards (as correctly noted under 'features') the card partitioning system was obviously left at the old partition size.

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