Given the advertised ability to use a 64GB Micro SD Card in the Sandisk
Talking Mp3 player, and the current availability of these cards for £13
on Amazon it seemed a no-brainer to buy one of these. After it arrived
though I was a bit mystified when the Sandisk completely failed to
recognise the larger capacity card in use, even though it was showing
up in My Computer.
To cut a long story short it appears you need to format a 64 GB as FAT
32 before the Sandisk will recognise it. To complicate matters Windows
10 will not allow you to format a 64GB SD card as FAT 32, NTFS and X-Fat
are the only available options. I tried downoading a couple of Windows
utilities which claimed to do what I wanted but both started to crash
alarmingly.
It appears that I already had a solution at hand though with my Mac.
For once Apple appear to be less of a Nanny than Microsoft and gave
ready access to what I needed. I simply used the standard Disk Utility
on my Mac and formatted the card as FAT 32. So far my Sandisk Talking
Mp3 Player is recognising the card and the test music and folders I put
on it absolutely fine.
I have yet to transfer over 30 GB of music to it but hopefully this
will go without a hitch.
I realise that this will not help those who do not have access to a Mac.
Perhaps somebody else will know of a more friendly Windows Utility which
will allow FAT 32 formatting on 64GB Cards.
David Griffith
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