Format LibreElec Image on SD Card

1st Official Post

    I know this could sound as a stupid question but I am really struggling with this for the past few months!

    I have an Sd Card with a LibreElec image on it and I would like to format it as I need the sd card for other stuff.

    I tried many things but all of them fail.

    I tried dd and gparted on Linux and diskpart and disk management on WIndows.

    Does anyone have any tips or suggestions? Maybe, I am missing something too obvious...

    If that fails, try this using windows command prompt.


    Method 3: Try to format your SD card from command prompt.

    a. Type cmd in start search box then right click on cmd and click on run as administrator.

    b. when cmd opens, type diskpart

    c. After that type "list disk".

    d. Select the disk of your SD card.

    "select disk 5"

    e. Type clean.

    f. Type "create partition primary".

    g. Type fomat fs=fat 32 quick .

    h. Type exit.

    I know you said you tried the Windows disk management, but I am constantly changing OS's on my microSD cards, and I always have to use the Windows Disk Management tool.

    Here is my video showing how I use that tool to reformat my MicroSD card, starts around the 4:30 minute marker.

    Reformatting MicroSD card

    • Official Post

    You can also uUse our USB/SD creator app (or Win32 disk imager, rufus, etc.) and restore bootsector.img to the USB. If the USB is not defected/damaged it should show in Windows as unformatted; and you can re-format.