Acer Aspire R11 R3-131T - weird SDXC card issue

Hi all, I will be grateful if somebody shares experience using SDXC cards with this computer. I'm having a strange issue. I bought a 128GB Samsung micro SD card with an SD adapter and wanted to use it as an additional drive in the SD slot of my Aspire. However, when I insert it, the laptop basically freezes, it shows it in the devices list, but you can't open it and file explorer becomes impossible to close, and then the whole computer freezes. But if you remove it, everything works. If you reboot the laptop with it, it doesn't even boot up completely, looks like Windows freeze before the actual start process takes place. I have Windows 10. If you insert it, the computer sometimes says it has to be formatted, but can't complete it. The weird thing is that when I remove the Micro SD from the adapter and put it into my old (~year 2011) external card reader, it works and can be formatted and written to. But if you put it into the SD adapter and plug it into the same external card reader, it starts freezing the computer again. What is going on? Is it possible that the SD adapter it came with doesn't support SDXC? I know that the laptop's card reader should support it. But even if it doesn't, why does the card work fine in the old external card reader without an adapter, but freezes when I'm using the SD adapter in the same card reader? I am puzzled...

Accepted answers

All comments

brummyfan2

Hi,
Yes, your model has no support for SDXC cards, it supports SD and SDHC cards only.

JordanB

If you want to give it one last shot, try putting it in the card reader and formatting it as exFAT. If you can't format it with Windows, then try the free mini partition tool. Then see if the laptop's card reader will accept it. It's possible that you may also have to wipe the SDXC with mini partition tool before formatting. Be careful, don't wipe the wrong disk!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-hardware/exfat-format-with-windows-10/7d0ce5dd-cb90-4946-997d-4ab66e9c4126?auth=1

https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html

romankasp

But why does it make the computer freeze when used in the external card reader with an SD adapter, but works without the adapter? Anyway, that's pretty sad that I can't make it work with the laptop. I hope that I can make it work with my phone or my wife's.

JordanB

romankasp,

I had a lexar micro sd card (inserted in the sd adapter) do the same thing just a couple of days ago. I had been using it in an Android tablet. And then I started using it in my laptop. And then I started using it in a desktop. It was working fine. So finally I got a new action camera and I put it in the action camera. It wouldn't work. It gave me an error. I inserted it in my desktop and the Windows Disk Management would freeze up....and the computer would freeze up.....and I had to force shut down. I couldn't even format it in diskpart from an external Windows USB media.

I was ready to throw it in the trash.

So I already gave you the instructions as to what I did in my previous post. I downloaded free mini partition tool. Wiped the micro sd card with mini partition tool. I used the setting where the mini partition tool wrote all 1's to it. I formatted it with mini partition tool. After I did that, it worked fine.

As far as I know, you're going to need to format it as exFAT since that might be what your computer's card reader's firmware is expecting......since that is apparently the standard for SDXC.

Also, unfortunately not every SD card is compatible with every card reader's firmware.

Quick Links

Top Members

Weekly

Puraw 325

Jack22 175

RenanVilela 95

Diya1811 90

GAMING6698 75

Swift Series Intel^® Evo™

Game Pass

Acer Corner

Gaming on Chromebook

Swift Series Intel® Evo™

Game Pass

Acer Corner

Gaming on Chromebook

Swift Series Intel^® Evo™