"no memory card inserted"

[trailhawk]

I got my memory card yesterday and my mavic pro 2 is not recognizing the sd card. What do I do now?

 

[JAW]

Which memory card are you using?
Have you tried another card?
Are you inserting it properly....they definitely can be fiddly to insert?

 

[Capt KO]

They require a very fast card. Saving money here doesn’t work. Good luck

 

[trailhawk]

Which memory card are you using?
Have you tried another card?
Are you inserting it properly....they definitely can be fiddly to insert?

It's inserted properly. I read somewhere that I need to format it, and I'm on a mac currently. Do i need to format it to ms dos fat or ex fat?

 

[DanMan32]

Better to format it in the AC. But I see you can't get that far.

Standard is:
FAT32 if 32GB or less
ExFAT if more than 32.

 

[Not A Speck Of Cereal]

It's surprising that any modern SD card from a major manufacturer would not come already formatted. You don't list what card you have though.

While you can format it in the computer, it's probably a better bet (just this first time to be sure it's not a bad card) to format it in the aircraft, using the format option in DJI Go 4.

For the computer, in the M2P owners manual, in the Specifications section under Supported File System, it lists FAT32 for 32GB or less, or exFAT for larger cards.

Chris

 

[JAW]

Definitely needs an MS-DOS format, either FAT or exFAT depending on the size. You can format it outside of the aircraft so that the aircraft will be able to recognize it, then reformat it in the aircraft.

 

[Not A Speck Of Cereal]

No, not "FAT". Only exFAT or FAT32.

Yes, it's an important distinction.

Can people stop saying "MS DOS" format? It doesn't matter that Microsoft developed these file-systems, "MS-DOS" is so 1990 (and today's drives coming with these formats work fine on a MAC).

 

[DanMan32]

I'm sure he was quoting the options the MAC offered him. If so, your beef is with Apple.

 

[DanMan32]

It's surprising that any modern SD card from a major manufacturer would not come already formatted. You don't list what card you have though.

While you can format it in the computer, it's probably a better bet (just this first time to be sure it's not a bad card) to format it in the aircraft, using the format option in DJI Go 4.

For the computer, in the M2P owners manual, in the Specifications section under Supported File System, it lists FAT32 for 32GB or less, or exFAT for larger cards.

Chris

He can't format it in the AC if the AC won't even acknowledge the card is installed.

 

[Not A Speck Of Cereal]

He can't format it in the AC if the AC won't even acknowledge the card is installed.

Well, the OP says "not recognizing", not the usual "No SD" message we see when there is no card in the slot.

Chris

 

[DanMan32]

I interpreted that as drone saying "I don't see a card" rather than "I see a card but don't know what it is"

 

[BradinLae]

Just a reminder that there are some unscrupulous sellers out there and a lot of eBay sellers from a certain country do shonky things. It could be just a bad card (Manufacturing fault)or can it be seen in a card reader attached to your computer. The people that order a 256gb $25 micro sd card and are slightly disappointed are not few in number.