SD Memory Card Formatter

SD Memory Card Formatter is an easy-to-use program designed to help you format SD, SDHC, and SDXC memory cards.

Although it supports other types of removable storage units too, such as pen drives or external hard disks, the developer doesn't recommend to use the application on any other kinds of devices than the ones it's intended for.

Simple setup and interface

Installing this utility is a fast task which shouldn't give you any trouble. Once it's over, you are greeted by a seemingly outdated interface made from a small window with a plain look that's easy to navigate.

After an SD memory card is connected to the computer, you can view its current size and volume label, edit the label, as well as select the format type between quick and full.

Configure format settings

In full mode, the tool can erase all existing data before proceeding with the formatting operation, or skip this step to overwrite the device. What's more, it can be asked to automatically adjust the format size but this option is not mandatory.

These settings can be reviewed before initializing the formatting procedure, to make any adjustments if necessary.

The entire task doesn't take long, and SD Card Formatter shows a dialog box on completion with the volume information regarding the filesystem, total space, and cluster size.

Apart from the fact that you can refresh the drives identified by the app in the drop-down menu, there are no other notable options available.

Evaluation

The software program worked smoothly in our tests, without triggering the operating system to hang, crash, or prompt error messages. It carried out formatting jobs swiftly while remaining light on system resource consumption.

Although it doesn't integrate richer options and configuration options, SD Card Formatter offers a straightforward and intuitive method for formatting SD, SDHC, and SDXC memory cards, and it can be handled with ease by anyone.

Best software to format SD cards

1 SD Memory Card Formatter

This software that formats SD cards is a free disk formatting utility tool that has many features; you can easily format an internal disk, external disk, MMC card, USB flash drive, and most especially SD card.

The tool has a simple and user-friendly interface that allows access to formatting options.

With its format function, when you Format SD card with this tool it formats completely and leaves no original SD drive data while fixing your SD card problems.

However, this tool doesn’t support SD Card encrypted by the “BitLocker To Go” functionality of Windows; hence, you can format an SD card after it has been unlocked. Otherwise, SD Memory Card Formatter is an excellent tool to have on your Windows 10

2 USB Disk Storage Format Tool

This software is the first on our list; the tool is very handy as it allows you to format any memory card completely without any error message. Also, the USB tool supports all types of memory cards from SD cards, micro SD cards, and other USB drives.

Meanwhile, this tool can also format all SD card file system types from FAT32, exFAT, and NTFS. Hence, there is no issue of incomplete formatting as the tool completely formats all media files and restores your SD card to its original storage form.

However, the major downside of this tool is the lack of partition feature and its limitation to just four file formats.

3 HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool

• Developed by HP, this software is an efficient tool to format SD cards most especially on Windows 10 PC.
• HP USB Disk Storage format tool is lightweight and can be installed on other USB storage to be used on other windows PC. The format tool supports only FAT32, NTFS, and FAT system files.
• Also, you can create a bootable USB drive by using the DOS startup disk tool feature. Although this tool lacks a partition feature it can be used to format SD cards without hitches.
• Meanwhile, this tool is free to download and compatible with Windows 10 PC.

4 Disk Drill

This free-format tool is similar to EaseUS Partition Master as it enables you to format the hard disk, partitions, and SD card for free.

The software has a user-friendly interface that allows users to delete or initialize SD card drive or partition properly.

Also, the software can recover deleted files from an SD card as well. Hence, it can be utilized as a recovery tool on Windows 10 PC.

Conclusion

These format tools each have their major strengths which makes them handy to install on your Windows 10. They also help you to partition your SD card drive and also fix related SD card issues.