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Windows 10 Won't Read SD Cards Unless I Reformat Them

My laptop, run by Windows 10, has a built-in SD card reader. It will not read my card unless I format it. But if I format it, I will lose all the photos stored. Therefore, I want to know what the reason is causing this problem and what I should do to solve this problem.

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Sherly· Answered on Apr 19, 2024

There are many reasons why Windows 10 won't read SD cards. According to my experience, you can first try restarting your computer. Most of the time, it can settle this question. If this cannot work, you can try to connect your SD card to another device or check your SD card in the disk management. But if the above methods cannot address this problem, you can try to format your SD card.

How to format your SD card? Based on my experience, it is recommended that EaseUS Partition Master can help you.

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Hopefully, this software can be useful for you to solve the problem that your Windows 10 won't read SD cards. You can follow these steps to address your problem.

Step 1. Right-click USB or the external drive, and choose "Format."

Step 2. Set the Partition label, File system, and Cluster size. After that, select "OK."

Step 3. Click "Yes" to continue.

Step 4. Click the "Execute 1 Task(s)" button and click "Apply" to format the hard drive partition.

In addition to formatting SD cards, EaseUS Partition Master can also be used to address other problems in the format option, such as file system incompatibility or corruption issues on SD cards, SDXC cards, USB flash drives, and all popular storage drives. Moreover, what makes it an appropriate choice to format an SD card on Windows 11 or 10 include the following benefits:

In a word, EaseUS Partition Master cannot only format SD cards but also help you address other future problems mentioned above so that you can try this software. I hope my suggestion can be helpful to you.

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