I bought a new SD card to put my models to print in, instead of using the one provided.
I cannot use wifi because where I put the A1, the wifi is too weak.
It is a fast 128Gb card. I came preformated as exfat.
When I put it in the machine in order to format it in fat32, it did not work…
Any idea ? Should I try to format i externally ?
Im not certain, as I have a P1P but I think the card is too big. I believe fat32 is limited to 32gb. In your situation, you may be better off installing a wifi extender.
I’d just re-format on a computer. Some devices can format un-formatted cards, but cannot change a card that is already formatted, which is how most are sold these days.
Windows does limit the card size for FAT32, but there are other free utilities that will work with your card. I prefer Rufus because it also works nicely to make USB sticks bootable. Easeus Partition Master is another useful partitioning utility.
I think Mac and Linux systems can format your card as FAT32 without any additional software.
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I have a Samsung 128GB Card I can’t use, it’s only format choices are exFAT & NTFS.
No FAT32. From what I’ve read, a lot of SD Cards 128GB or larger have dropped FAT32.
I haven’t seen such but I am almost sure you can change whatever you want on that card.
In Windows just type in start menu “partition”. If you cannot do it with the GUI (as some stuff is unavaiable) try using diskpart.exe.
I run a Scandisk 128 gigabyte card just fine. Like was mentioned before if you don’t have a Linux or Mac computer there are utilities. The X1C will format the cards as well, not sure if the A1 will or not.
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Go here. Use this: SD Memory Card Formatter for Windows/Mac | SD Association
Comes in both Mac and Windows flavors.
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Problem solved : You need an external formatter like “AOMEI Partition Assistant” or “IM-Magic Partition Resizer” to format the card in FAT32.
This is what I did and I copied the original content of the Bambu card to my new 128Gb card.
It works just fine.
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Aomei does work to format large cards and can also convert from one type to another type for you
You can also format the micro SD card to “FAT32” with “Rufus”.
The card works on my A1 with the following settings:
Boot selection: Non bootable
Partition scheme: MBR
File system: Large FAT32 (Default)
Cluster size 64 kilobytes
The X1C have no Problem to format a 512 GB micro SD Card
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THe manager at Micro Center in Sharonville (Cincinnati) told me that I should format the Micro SD card on the printer before using it.
I’m also having problems with my micro SD cards and I’m looking for a solution
I found and easy workaround for windows users. Connect the sd card to windows, you will notice it’s exfat probably by default and you won’t have the fat32 as an option when you try to format it in explorer in the my computer window. Also the 3D printer won’t recognize the card either which makes formating on the 3D printer also a problem if you try that route.
How you get around this is open up the disk management on windows, find the sd card partition and then delete the exFAT partition. After that set up a new simple volume and make sure it is no more than 32000 mb in size, once you do that the FAT 32 option will be available. Finish the format, yes it’s not the full size of your drive {mine was 128GB} but that’s okay. Next place the card in the 3D printer and it should be able to be recognized now. Format the card, when it finishes you’ll notice the card has been formatted to the full size! That’s it!
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Max size of a FAT32 partition is 2TB.
I am personally not a fan of RUFUS, as I have had it destroy (as in make completely unrecoverable) three thumbdrives.
Windows does not limit the FAT32 size, the nature of FAT32 partition tables (4^32 bytes) limits the size. The Windows Disk Management utility (diskmgmt.msc) will let you format it (the right-click | format tool may only do 32 GB).
The cards themselves have no bearing on how they are formatted. If they are too large for a particular format type, they may be partitioned to conform to the whatever the format is.
Since most cards are preformatted, and FAT/ FAT32 have fallen out of favor (due to large disk availability and other disadvantages of those formats (speed, no file permissions))
You can always change the formatting on a drive or card by doing a low-level format instead of a format conversion. This will completely erase the device and format it with the desired type.
This worked perfectly! User friendly and had no problem. Thank you!
(Used AOMEI)
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Not sue which Bambu printer you are using but under the utilities on my X1C screen there is an option to format the card. Found the information here: wiki.bambulab.c o m/en/x1/troubleshooting/hmscode/0500_0100_0003_0006 I just formatted my 512GB with no issue.
Normally, but there are size limitations with the printer or if using the standard methods to reformat to FAT32. So instead, download “Rufus” app to reformat to FAT32 through Rufus. It’s simple and intuitive. I reformatted a 128 GB SD card with Rufus.
Perhaps the X1C does not have a size limitation. Hope that’s the case because seems straightforward enough, but do you know if reformatted the entire 512 GB card or just 32 GB of that card? The A1 Mini has the standard size limitation, I think it’s 32 GB. But I used Rufus to reformat my entire 128 GB card to FAT32. Perhaps it is a A series printer issue.