Fix SD Card Not Showing Full Capacity (Windows Tutorial)
Is your SD card showing way less storage than it should? This quick and easy fix will show you how to restore full capacity using built-in Windows tools like Disk Management.
Whether your microSD card is corrupted, shows unallocated space, or split into multiple volumes, this guide walks you through formatting and recovering it step-by-step.
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0:00 The problem
0:11 The Fix
1:01 Merging the storage
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so if you're like me you have an SD card
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that has way less space on it than it
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says it does this one right here has 128
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GB but only shows 47 megabytes to fix
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this what we need to do is go to
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settings from here you then want to go
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to
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storage and then scroll down until you
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see Advanced storage settings and click
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on that you then want to go to Diss and
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volumes
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right here is your main Computer Drive
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so you can just put that up and here is
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our SD card so if we look down here we
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can see that it's unallocated so what we
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want to do is create a volume create a
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simple volume and then you can see that
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we have a lot more space here so what we
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want to do is we want to do
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formulate if you get this message you
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can just press cancel then after a
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little while this window will pop up and
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if we go back here we can see that it's
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been split into two different drives so
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now that we have that space actually
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showing up what we're going to do next
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is press windows and the x button at the
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same time and then click on Disk
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Management here you'll be able to see
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dis one is our SD card and you can see
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it's been split into separate sections
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so what you're going to want to do is
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rightclick on one of these sections
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select a delete volume and then select
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yes after a second this will turn gray
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and be
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unallocated and you then want to do this
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for the rest of the
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volumes now that we have it all
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unallocated what we're going to want to
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do is right click on this and then
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select create new simple volume they'll
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want to push next
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next next next and then
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finish after a couple of seconds the SD
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card will pop up in a new file explorers
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window and if we go back to our PC we
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can see that we now have all of the
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space we expected it to have
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Descriptions:
Target keywords: SD card showing wrong size, fix SD card capacity, SD card only showing 47MB, recover microSD storage, unallocated SD card fix
Option 2: Think your SD card is broken because it's only showing a few megabytes instead of the full gigabytes? Don’t throw it away yet! This tutorial shows you how to fix an SD card that’s been partitioned or corrupted, using Windows Disk Management to recover unallocated space and restore full capacity. Works for microSD cards, USB drives, and more.
Target keywords: SD card only shows 47MB, fix corrupted SD card, restore SD card space, format SD card in Windows, disk management SD card
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Titles:
1. Fix SD Card Only Showing 47MB Instead of Full Storage
2. SD Card Not Showing Full Size? Here’s the Fix
3. How to Restore Full Storage on a Corrupted SD Card
4. Recover Missing Space on Your SD Card (Simple Fix)
5. SD Card Showing Wrong Capacity? Fix It in Minutes