Use Disk Management tool to format and restore SD card to full capacity In order to fully format and reclaim full capacity of SD card, follow steps: Right-click This PC/My Computer Manage Select Disk Management under Device Manager, find and right-click on SD card and select Format Volume. How to clear an SD card using Disk Management Step 1: First of all, you need to access Disk Management Windows 10. For this, simply right click on the Start menu and choose 'Disk management' from the menu. Alternatively, you can press the Windows key along with the R key on your keyboard.

SD Card Is Not Showing Full Capacity

'I bought a SanDisk micro SD card a year ago, and it's 8GB. This morning when I transferred some photos from the SD card to the other on my Windows 10 computer, to free up some space, later I check its property, it shows around ~500MB capacity. That's not true. What happened? It should be as the original 8GB I think.'

Typical reasons:

As far as we concerned, the issue of SD card showing the wrong size mainly owes to three aspects.

1. 1. Cheap and faulty SD card bought from dishonest vendors
2. 2. Incompatible with card readers or host devices
3. 3. Infected by computer viruses

How to Restore SD Card to Full Size

When you exclude the causes of the mentioned incompatibility, to restore the SD card to its full size for a normal working state, you need to perform a quick format.

There are some good SD card formatting tools that are free to use on Windows 10/8.1/8/7. Pick up a handy one you prefer.

Method 1. Disk Management

Step 1: Right-click This PC/My Computer > Manage.

Step 2: Select Disk Management under Device Manager, find and right-click on SD card and select Format..

Step 3: Rename and reset the file system of SD card to NTFS or FAT32 as your need, follow the onscreen guidelines to complete the format process.

After this, you'll regain all the storage size of your SD card and you can use it for storing and saving files and data again then.

Method 2. EaseUS disk formatting software

This is third-party free partition software, so it requires you to download and install on your computer, and then follow the guide to format the SD card.

Step 1: Open EaseUS Partition Master. Find your SD card and right-click the partition you want to format and choose 'Format'.

Step 2: Set a new partition label, file system (NTFS/FAT32/EXT2/EXT3), and cluster size to the selected partition, then click 'OK'.

Step 3: Click 'OK' on the pop-up window to continue.

Step 4: Click the 'Execute Operation' button on the toolbar, then click 'Apply' to start formatting your SD card.

Method 3. DiskPart command line

Step 1: Type cmd in the search box in Windows 10 and then you'll get the best match Command Prompt. Right-click on it and choose 'Run as administrator'.

Step 2: In the command prompt, type diskpart and press 'Enter'.

Step 3: Type list disk to list all the available drives and press 'Enter'.

Step 4: Type select disk + disk number ( for example, select disk 0) to select the SD card you want to format and press Enter.

Step 5: Type clean to clean the SD card you have selected and press 'Enter'.

Step 6: Type create partition primary to create a partition on the cleaned SD card and press 'Enter':

Step 7: Type format fs=ntfs (or format fs=exfat) and press 'Enter' to format the drive with NTFS or exFAT.

Step 8: Type assign letter=drive letter (for example, assign letter=E) to assign a drive letter and press 'Enter'.

How to Recover Data from Formatted SD Card

Disk formatting should be taken very carefully as we addressed many times, it's going to wipe all data out, leaving you a blank SD card in the end.

With no backup at hand, at the same time, lost data after formatting. Calm down for a second. Now try to download EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard and follow the guide to perform SD card formatted data recovery.

Step 1. Run SD card recovery software and scan the card.

Launch EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard on your PC and select your SD card. Then click 'Scan' to start finding lost data on your SD card.

Step 2. Check found SD card data.

After the scanning process, you can click 'Filter' to quickly find wanted files.

Step 3. Restore SD card data.

You can check and preview found files by double-clicking each one of them. Then click Recover to save found SD card files to a secure location on your PC or external storage.

This context will walk you through the basics of memory management on the new Samsung Galaxy flagship smartphones. Here’s a quick walkthrough on how to manage the Galaxy S20 internal memory usage.

The new Samsung Galaxy S20 is packed with 12 gigabytes of internal memory and 128 gigabytes of external storage expandable to 1 terabyte via microSD card. In other words, this phone has a lot of storage space for you to store various types of files and apps.

Nonetheless, it’s storage capacity is limited and thus will sooner or later become fully occupied. When that moment comes, you will need to free up space by deleting old and unwanted content that have used up a certain amount of the overall storage.

Read on to learn how to manage the internal storage of your galaxy s20 to ensure smooth and optimum performance.

Easy steps to View and Manage Internal Memory Usage on Galaxy S20

Time Needed :5 minutes

The steps I mapped out below are depicting the standard process of accessing the memory folder wherein you can find more details on what uses how much of your phone’s storage. This is where you should go whenever your device starts to show performance-related issues. And here’s how it works.

1. Swipe up from the Home screen.

   Doing so will let you view and access your apps.
   

2. From the Apps screen, tap Settings.

   The Settings menu consisting various sub-items and options will show up next.
   These items basically comprises the key features and services for you to manage.
   

3. Scroll down to and select Device care.

   A new screen wherein you can configure battery, storage and memory settings will open.
   

4. Tap Memory to continue.

   Crack serial presto pvr hd decoder. Memory-related information including the available storage space as well as apps that are using the phone's internal storage is displayed.
   

5. Tap on the Apps not used recently.

   This will pull up a list of the apps that are installed on your phone but aren't used recently.
   You can tap on the Clean now button to instigate instant memory clearing.
   To view more information on how much storage space each of these apps are utilizing, just tap on the individual application.
   There is also a summary of the overall storage space an app consumes. This information is displayed next to the name of each app.
   

Materials

• Galaxy S20, Galaxy S20 Plus, Galaxy Ultra

To free up space, you can delete all apps that are no longer useful. This is often needed if the device is already starting to show performance issues such as sluggishness, random freezes and system crashes.

Although the said symptoms are typically appearing after several months or years of regular use, there are also some factors that can trigger the same symptoms to manifest earlier than expected. And this is likewise when the need to manage your phone’s internal storage arises.

Aside from deleting apps, other files including old messages, photos, videos and audio files also consume a certain amount of the overall internal memory and so you also have to manage them from time to time.

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And that covers everything in this tutorial. Please keep posted for more comprehensive tutorials, tips and tricks that will help you make the most of your new Samsung galaxy s20 smartphone.

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