6 Ways To Fix SD Card Showing Wrong Size Easily

There are times when you use the SD card or a Pen-drive of a particular size mentioned in it but it shows a different size when you insert in a device or a computer system. 

If you are one of the users facing this kind of issue then you don’t have to worry, I will be showing few of the best methods to solve the SD Card Showing Wrong Size issue 

But, there are times when sellers sell duplicate or SD cards that get corrupted after a use or two or such memory devices whose actual size is less but the mentioned size is higher and fixing these kinds of memory devices is not possible. 

Fix SD Card Showing Wrong Size

You must make sure the memory device you are purchasing is of good quality, and most importantly it has to be a genuine product. So, I have 6 ways to fix SD Card Showing Wrong Size which are given below.

1. Scan SD Card Or Pendrive with Antivirus 

There are times when you download stuff or transfer files from other systems to your memory cards or pen-drive then the virus comes to the memory card. There is a possibility that the viruses could be consuming the space or eventually might corrupt the memory device on a temporary basis.

All you have to do is scan the external memory device either from the Windows Defender or any anti-virus software you have in your system. I would recommend Bitdefender to scan the device because it is free of cost and the free version of this software does the job pretty decently.

2. Clean Pendrive using CMD to Fix Sd Card Showing Less Size

To clean the respective memory card or pen-drive from the system CMD, go through the steps mentioned below.

Steps:

1. Click on windows search bar
2. Search for “Command Prompt or CMD”
3. Right click on it and Run it as administrator
4. Type “diskpart” and enter
5. After entering DISKPART type “list disk” and enter
6. Then type “select disk (disk number) ” and enter
7. Now type “clean” and  enter
8. Now type “create partition primary” and  enter
9. To format type “format fs=ntfs” and enter
10. And you are done

Head on to the next method if this one doesn’t work for you.

3. Delete SD Card Partition to Fix Sd Card Showing Incorrect Size

For deleting the SD card partition from the system and creating a new one again in the system, go through the steps mentioned below thoroughly.

Steps:

1. Click on windows search bar
2. Search for “Command Prompt or CMD”
3. Right click on it and Run it as administrator
4. Type “diskpart” and enter
5. After entering DISKPART type “list disk” and enter
6. Then type “select disk (disk number) ” and enter
7. Now type “list partition” and  enter
8. Then “select partition 1” and enter
9. To delete type “delete partition” and enter
10. Now type “create partition primary” and  enter
11. Then type “active” and enter to activate the partition

After you are done with the CMD commands head on to the disk management part to allocate the external memory device:

1. Click on the windows search bar
2. Search & Open for “disk management”
3. Right-click on the particular disk i.e. the damaged one
4. Select “New Simple Volume”
5. Click on “Next” until you see the drive letter selection window
6. Also, don’t change the size of the disk, leave it as it is
7. Then select the drive letter
8. Name the disk if you want to
9. And you are done.

So, most probably this should fix the size issue of the external memory device. Just plug the external device out and plug it in again. If this method didn’t fix the issue then head on to the next one.

4. Format Memory Card Or Pendrive using CMD 

To format the external device follow the below mentioned steps carefully.

Steps:

1. Click on windows search bar
2. Search for “Command Prompt or CMD”
3. Right click on it and Run it as administrator
4. Type “diskpart” and enter
5. After entering DISKPART type “list disk” and enter
6. Then type “select disk (disk number) ” and enter
7. To format type “format fs=ntfs” and enter (if you face size issue error then there will be no volume selected shown in the CMD)
8. Now type “list volume” and  enter
9. Now look for the particular volume, then type “select volume (volume number)” and  enter
10. To format type “format fs=ntfs” and enter
11. It will take a few minutes and you are done formating

5. Low-Level Format On SD Card/Pendrive 

This is another method to Fix SD Card Showing Wrong Size. To follow up on this method you will have to download a 3^rd party software to format the SD card or any external memory device on a low level. 

Steps:

1. After you install it
2. Open the tool
3. Select the particular disk or device to format
4. Format will take a few minutes
5. Then, Plug the device out and again in
6. And you are done

Download: HDD LLF Low Level Format Tool

6. Format SD Card Or Pendrive using MalvaStyle to Fix Sd Card Showing Wrong Size

In this method also, you will have to download a 3^rd party tool to format the external memory device i.e. MalvaStyle. This tool is one of the best tools to manage external disks and repair it without typing any commands. Below are the steps to format the SD card from the tool.

Steps:

1. After installing the tool
2. Open the tool
3. Click on “USB only” box
4. Click on the dropdown menu and select the device
5. Once you have selected the device
6. Click on “disk part” then click “ok”
7. Now the formatting process will begin
8. Wait until the formatting is completed
9. And you are done

Download: MalvaStyle 

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Conclusion

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