


M1, you might be asked to install Rosetta in order to open the SD Card Formatter.Īdministrator Rights is required for Windows and Mac OS/macOS to execute SD Memory Card Formatter. Note: If you have a Mac with Apple silicon, e.g. Please format the SD/SDHC/SDXC Card after it has been unlocked.

The SD Memory Card Formatter doesn’t support SD/SDHC/SDXC Card encrypted by the “BitLocker To Go” functionality of Windows. The protected area shall be formatted by an appropriate PC application or SD host devices that provide SD security function. The SD Memory Card Formatter does not format the protected area in the SD/SDHC/SDXC Cards. SD/SDHC/SDXC Cards have a “Protected Area” for SD Card security purposes. In general, formatting tools provided with operating systems can format various storage media including SD/SDHC/SDXC Cards, but it may not be optimized for SD/SDHC/SDXC Cards and it may result in lower performance. It is strongly recommended to use the SD Memory Card Formatter to format SD/SDHC/SDXC Cards rather than using formatting tools provided with individual operating systems. The SD Memory Card Formatter formats SD Memory Card, SDHC Memory Card and SDXC Memory Card (respectively SD/SDHC/SDXC Cards) complying with the SD File System Specification created by the SD Association (SDA). Currently, anytime I restart my computer I have to run a pointless exe file located on the virtual CD that does not require a password in order for me to have access to my drive.Watch our video on how to use the SD Memory Card Formatter SD Memory Card Formatter 5.0.2 for SD/SDHC/SDXC Setting > Apps and used that to uninstall the software it did not actually remove the unlocker. I believe that because I switched the Drive Letters when I went into I switched the Drive Letter of the Virtual CD (originally D:) with the Drive Letter of the external SSD(originally F:) so that the external SSD would appear higher in file explorer.Īfter realizing it would require me to enter a password in every time my computer restarts I decided to try and uninstall the SanDisk unlocker. It created a virtual CD Drive which has only read permissions used to unlock the drive before using it. It came with security software which I installed without really thinking. I recently purchased a SanDisk 2TB Extreme PRO Portable External SSD.
