The command dd is used to low level format the card
The command fdisk is used to create a new primary partition
The command mkfs.vfat us used to create the FAT32 file system
kerphi@ketchup:~$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd
dd: écriture vers `/dev/sdd': Aucun espace disponible sur le périphérique
1974273+0 enregistrements lus
1974272+0 enregistrements écrits
1010827264 octets (1,0 GB) copiés, 1090,36 seconde, 927 kB/s
kerphi@ketchup:~$ sudo fdisk /dev/sdd
Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel
Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only,
until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous
content won't be recoverable.
Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdd: 1010 MB, 1010827264 bytes
32 heads, 61 sectors/track, 1011 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1952 * 512 = 999424 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
Command (m for help): n
Command action
e extended
p primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4): 1
First cylinder (1-1011, default 1):
Using default value 1
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-1011, default 1011): 1011
Command (m for help): t
Selected partition 1
Hex code (type L to list codes): b
Changed system type of partition 1 to b (W95 FAT32)
Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
WARNING: If you have created or modified any DOS 6.x
partitions, please see the fdisk manual page for additional
information.
Syncing disks.
kerphi@ketchup:~$ sudo mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/sdd1
mkfs.vfat 2.11 (12 Mar 2005)
Discussion
heh, you call it low-level format? At most it is wiping the thing. As well often after wiping you need to tell fdisk the heads, cyls and sectors as reported by fdisk before wiping to have the same space to the byte.
pls send flash memeory low level format software
i want to download low lvel format to format my memory card. please help me
I want low level format for sd memory card
This is _not_ a low level format, and in fact is probably a good way to put an sd card into a state where it _needs_ to be low level formatted to recover the performance loss incurred by forcing every subsequent write to read and rewrite an entire erasure block.
For further explanation, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAND_flash#Block_erasure
I have a memory card mic sd but suddenly I can't open it nor format it so plz if u have any solution help me out and u'll be appreciated
pls send flash memeory low level format software, I need to repir some sd memorys