Good morning @JohnRennie sir :-)

@PCMSE Hi :-)

Whenever you are free, I am having a lot of trouble formatting my sd card

I have a few questions stacked up at the moment, so it will be a while ...

@JohnRennie Hello sir :-)

@JohnRennie Okay sir, no problem :-)

@PCMSE What is happening when you try and format the card?

Also sir, it's showing corrupted sd card in android

So neither am I able to format it there

There's a tool called diskpart you can use. Open a command prompt and type diskpart

Just a second sir

You'll get an "are you sure" warning - just answer Yes

Yes sir done

Type list disk and paste the output here. You should get something like this:

DISKPART> list disk

  Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
  --------  -------------  -------  -------  ---  ---
  Disk 0    Online          232 GB  1024 KB        *
  Disk 1    Online          894 GB  1024 KB        *
  Disk 2    Online         3936 MB  3861 MB        *

(in my case it's showing my two hard disks)

Sir, run as administrator right for cmd?

Yes

The second's one sd card

OK. Now type select disk 1, then list part.

DISKPART> select disk 2

Disk 2 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> list part

  Partition ###  Type              Size     Offset
  -------------  ----------------  -------  -------
  Partition 1    System              73 MB  1024 KB

Yes sir got this

Can you copy and paste the output so I can see it.

Yes sir, just a moment

You don't ned to take a screenshor, you can copy and paste froma command prompt.

Use the right mouse button to select

and press Enter to copy the selection.

OK, now type clean and this will completely wipe the disk.

Cool :-)

Now type:

create partition primary

Typed sir, nothing happened

Now type list part again and it should show the new partition you just created.

Hmm, no sir, it's not letting me type below

Show me a screenshot

Ah, it's hung trying to create the primary partition.

I suspect you have a dead SD card.

So it cannot be solved sir?

Diskpart is quite a low level tool, so if diskpart cannot format the disk nothing can.

Is this a new SD card or one that was working and stopped?

Yes sir, it was working and then stopped (corrupted sd card)

I suspect it has died. Sorry :-(

Okay sir, no problem. Thank you very much :-)

If you look in Event Viewer you'll probably see disk errors being reported.

If diskpart is still hung you'll need to press ctrl-C to interrupt it.

yes sir, it started again

but stuck again at same position

create partition primary

Sir, will all sd cards eventually die and we cannot format it?

I don't have much experience with SD cards as I normally only use pen drives for removeable storage. Was it a cheap SD card or one from a big name supplier like SanDisk or Kioxia?

SanDisk

SanDisk are normally very reliable. They are my preferred brand. I think you just got unlucky this time.

Okay sir :-)

All SD cards will eventually die, but they should last a long time so it isn't usually a problem.

Okay sir, Thank you very much for your time :-)

:-)

Have to leave now sir. Drivers updated, so have to restart. Bye sir :-)

Bye :-)