2025-04-14, 03:37 AM
It seems like something caused a boot loop, and it might have corrupted the drive due to repeatedly mounting the drive and crashing. I've had the occasional drive become corrupted when encountering crashes debugging the firmware, I've always been able to recover them by reformatting though.
Because you mentioned Rufus, which seems to be Windows software, I'm assuming you're using Windows. You shouldn't need Rufus to format the drive afaik, Windows can format drives with the inbuilt disk management tool, which would also be the first place I'd check to see if the drives appear there and are able to be reformatted from there. To use this tool you can use the Win+R (run) shortcut and type in `diskmgmt.msc` and hit "Ok". If they're not there, try removing the drive and plugging it back in again, and double check the card reader (I recently spent ages trying to read a card I thought was broken and it turned out the reader was broken).
You might also want to try formatting as ExFAT, rather than FAT32. Both are supported, but you might find you have better luck with one or the other.
Hope this helps!
Because you mentioned Rufus, which seems to be Windows software, I'm assuming you're using Windows. You shouldn't need Rufus to format the drive afaik, Windows can format drives with the inbuilt disk management tool, which would also be the first place I'd check to see if the drives appear there and are able to be reformatted from there. To use this tool you can use the Win+R (run) shortcut and type in `diskmgmt.msc` and hit "Ok". If they're not there, try removing the drive and plugging it back in again, and double check the card reader (I recently spent ages trying to read a card I thought was broken and it turned out the reader was broken).
You might also want to try formatting as ExFAT, rather than FAT32. Both are supported, but you might find you have better luck with one or the other.
Hope this helps!
