#Quick disk format vs regular full

Select either quick disk format or the full disk format, then tap Format Card.Tap the arrow icon in the lower-right corner of the screen several times to go to the third Settings page, and then tap SD card. If the control icons aren't showing, tap anywhere on the touch screen.

From Pearl Mini's touch screen, tap the gear icon to open the System settings screen.

Windows supports both FAT and NTFS for both quick and full formats. Please be patient and wait for the formatting message to disappear.įormat the SD card using the touch screen A full format takes significantly longer than a quick format. Either you misspelled or the disk is damaged trying to read all clusters and takes that long. Full format you also check hard drive for damaged clusters. Very large SD cards can take a while to format. Quick format you just 'select' files ready to be deleted and overwritten with new files and maybe even with new partition format like ntfs or fat32 etc. You can check if the SD card is formatting using Pearl Mini's touch screen when you select the Settings gear icon and tap System Status.ĭo not remove the SD card while it is being formatted. The amount of time it takes to format depends on the capacity of the SD card and if you select quick disk format or the full disk format. Since its new, you wont have any (most likely). The only difference is that a 'Full' format checks for bad sectors on the drive. You must wait for the formatting to finish before removing or recording to the SD card. When doing a quick format there are not checks for bad sectors on the disk, the only reason why a full format takes longer is because of those checks. A full disk format checks for bad blocks on the SD card and marks any that are found on the EXT4 partition.

Select either quick disk format or the full disk format, then click Format card.

From the Configuration menu, select SD Card.

Login to the Admin panel as admin, see Connect to the Admin panel.Insert the SD card into the SD card slot on the front panel.