Erfolg Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 As my existing Micro SD cards are pretty full I purchased an additional card. The card is QUMOX 64GB, it seems fine at receiving STL code from Autodesk Fusion 360 to and transferring the sliced object from Ultimate Cura to the card. However after inserting the card into by Ender printer, the menu says no card present. I have repeated the various operations a number of times. I have formatted the card, repeated the various operations, with the same result. Looking at the 😧 drive content, both the STL and G code appear to be there. Rather than delay what I am doing I have ordered a same size (that is GB) Scandisk. Still would kike to understand the problem and fix it if possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun Walsh Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 What capacity were the other cards? It may be that the Ender will not see sdxc cards or the formatting is different, is the new card formatted to fat32? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Harris - Moderator Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 I had two memory cards that I used in turn to transfer print files to my printer...one lived in the PC and the other in the printer - then the printer control board failed to read either of them. So I bought a replacement PCB and fitted it. It still failed to read either card which definitely had files on as I could read them in my PC. I put another memory card in it with an STL file on it and it read it perfectly. Printer working and all was well but I never found what had happened to those cards - which still worked fine in other devices. I tried reformatting in every format that could conceivably be read to no avail... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Chaddock Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 I have a problem with static. Maybe its the nylon content in the carpet but after 3 paces from the PC to the printer I frequently quite a crack when I touch any metal part on the printer. I fear for the micro SD card if the discharge occurred over it so I now always touch the vertical lead screw (I know that is earthed) before inserting the card. I have had the printer more than once fail to read the card despite CURA writing to it successfully. So far reformatting the card and reloading the STL has proved successful. I am sure it is only a matter of time before the card will fail completely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PDB Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, Shaun Walsh said: What capacity were the other cards? It may be that the Ender will not see sdxc cards or the formatting is different, is the new card formatted to fat32? As above, are you sure the card is formatted to fat32? No knowledge of Qumox, I only use SanDisk and have never experienced an issue. Edited December 8, 2023 by PDB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bennett Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 I had the same problem with a 64GB card even though my 16GB one works fine. I'm sure I read somewhere that Ender recommend 8GB or 16GB. Maybe they can't handle more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyinFlynn Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 As others have already said, it is quite possibly down to the standard of card. You probably need an SDHC card, which is formatted with FAT32 and will be between 2GB and 32GB, what you have with your QUMOX is a SDXC card formatted with exFAT. https://www.sdcard.org/developers/sd-standard-overview/capacity-sd-sdhc-sdxc-sduc/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erfolg Posted December 9, 2023 Author Share Posted December 9, 2023 I am hoping I have been lucky in that I ordered a 32GB Scandisk before your posts Allen and FlyinFlynn. If I had a little more patience and a lot more knowledge these cock ups, could be avoided by me. Time will tell🙄. Thanks for the help, hopefully a lesson learnt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PDB Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 (edited) No need to have purchased another card, you can reformat the QUMOX as FAT32. FYI Ender printers will support cards of 64GB, but there is no point as the gcode files are tiny. Edited December 9, 2023 by PDB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedBaron Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 My problem and solution may not quite relate to your situation, but.... I have a Qidi printer that I am very happy with. Some while ago I also had trouble with inserting an SD card and it not being recognised, other times it was quite happy with the SD card. Eventually I twigged that happiness was related to the SD card being present when I powered up the printer and unhappiness was related to inserting the card after power up. The solution was easy, whenever you need to insert a card power down first. Slightly annoying but not a major issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyinFlynn Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 16 hours ago, PDB said: No need to have purchased another card, you can reformat the QUMOX as FAT32. It maybe that Linux will allow that natively but a windows machine will not when using the standard windows utilities. Something like partition master will need to be downloaded. Be careful not to partition master your main storage devices! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PDB Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 (edited) 8 minutes ago, FlyinFlynn said: It maybe that Linux will allow that natively but a windows machine will not when using the standard windows utilities. Something like partition master will need to be downloaded. Be careful not to partition master your main storage devices! Any version of Windows will using the built in utility diskpart. Edited December 10, 2023 by PDB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Lewis 3 Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 Or if you don't like DOS commands then click on "this PC" to open explorer and show the drives then right click on the drive you want then pick format from the drop down, select file system as FAT 32 (which will likely be the default) and then click start, won#t really matter whether you do quick or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erfolg Posted December 10, 2023 Author Share Posted December 10, 2023 I will try and reformat the new old card, in a way, there is nothing to loose. In the mean time I suspect that the Scandisk is probably a non UK supply. I expected the card to arrive in a day, maybe two, as a Prime purchase. In reality it it is coming from somewhere with a 5 day postal service, I wonder where? Surprisingly it was nowhere near the lowest cost Scandisk. I really should have looked closer at Amazon add, I will try to remind myself in future.🤨 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PDB Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 1 hour ago, Philip Lewis 3 said: Or if you don't like DOS commands then click on "this PC" to open explorer and show the drives then right click on the drive you want then pick format from the drop down, select file system as FAT 32 (which will likely be the default) and then click start, won#t really matter whether you do quick or not. We’re talking about a 64GB card, via the Windows UI there’s a 32GB partition limit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Lewis 3 Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 Good point, I'd either forgotten or not read that far back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyinFlynn Posted December 11, 2023 Share Posted December 11, 2023 20 hours ago, PDB said: Any version of Windows will using the built in utility diskpart. Only if it is less than 32GB. Note: If the 64GB SD card only has a single partition, you can’t directly format the partition to FAT32 with Disk Management. Windows Disk Management only allows you to format a drive under 32GB to FAT32. To solve this, you can right-click the partition on the SD card and choose Shrink to shrink the partition (limited to NTFS partition) to 32GB. Right-click the Free space and click New Simple Volume to create another 32GB partition on the SD card. Then you can follow the 3 steps above to format these two 32GB partitions to FAT32 format. (https://www.minitool.com/partition-disk/how-to-format-64gb-sd-card-to-fat32.html) Stay calm if you are experiencing the same issue: Windows doesn't allow you to format 64GB or bigger SD card to FAT32. Follow through this guide, and you'll get a complete and easy guide to successfully format your SD card and other types of storage devices into FAT32 as easy as 123. Let's get started here. (https://www.easeus.com/partition-master/format-64gb-sd-card-to-fat32.html) I would suggest asking a computer novice to mess around with partitioning disks is a recipe for disaster.. it's ok if you know what you are doing but someone will end up partitioning their system drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erfolg Posted December 12, 2023 Author Share Posted December 12, 2023 FlyinFlynn Perhaps I will just accept that the SD card I purchased is not immediately useful, to me. Better that, than create chaos on my PC or lap top. In the next day or two the ScanDisk card should arrive, I will then see if that will work on my Ender3. If not, I will purchase an even smaller capacity card. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyinFlynn Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 17 hours ago, Erfolg said: FlyinFlynn Perhaps I will just accept that the SD card I purchased is not immediately useful, to me. Better that, than create chaos on my PC or lap top. In the next day or two the ScanDisk card should arrive, I will then see if that will work on my Ender3. If not, I will purchase an even smaller capacity card. Good plan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erfolg Posted January 20 Author Share Posted January 20 As the Flyinflyn suggested that a 32GB SD Card would be formatted as required, is true. The card has been lying by my printer for some time now, today, I used it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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