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Gear / Technical Help => Post-Processing, Computer / Streaming / Internet Devices & Related Activity => Topic started by: vanark on September 30, 2025, 07:45:17 PM

Title: 16 GB SD card shows 32 GB of space?
Post by: vanark on September 30, 2025, 07:45:17 PM

I'm not sure I've ever seen this before. I was sent an SD card in order to try to recover a 0 byte file. When I was going to make an image of the card so I could play around with an exact copy, the card shows as 32 GB, not 16 GB. Very weird. Is it a counterfeit card or just a mislabeling?

I was able to recover a portion of the 0 byte file (about 1.6 GB of a 24/96 WAV file), but wondering if this card itself was the source of the problem. I did CHKDSK and then FIXWAV on the recovered file to recover the file.

Title: Re: 16 GB SD card shows 32 GB of space?
Post by: Limit35 on October 02, 2025, 01:18:16 PM

Maybe a lot failed at 32GB but tested ok for 16GB so they labeled them with that. I am not sure if that is still done but I know it was common for things like processors years ago.