[Q] N7100 Cyanogenmod - SD card woes! - Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello all ive recently installed cyanogenmod 10.1 and everything's running fine.
Bar my 64gb class 10 sd card - it's not readable by cm10.
Ive tried formatting it via CWM and its a no go. Just says error mounting external_sd then skipping then done.
When the device is on it just says "Blank SD card or unreadable filesystem"
Ive formatted the card to fat32 on my PC and it shows as fat32 with 59gb free.
However when booted it still says blank sd card and when i tap it and tap format nothing happens.
But if i boot into cwm and mount mass storage it shows up on windows as fat32 and accessible.
I havn't any idea what to do now. Everywhere i read Cyanogenmod doesnt support exFAT which my card originally was when using touchwiz.
And now that Iv'e formatted it to FAT32 and verified everything's working i cant understand why the darn thing wont work on my phone.
And i don't know what to do now.. I need the SD card and its not like its a cheap one the built in 16gb simply doesn't cut it ive got a titanium backup that has all my apps and what not that i need to restore and all i need is this silly card to be reconized. So its formatted Fat32. is there anything else i need to do -- so that android reconize it as a use-able card not just a Blank SD card that it refuses to like?
Sorry im frustrated
All help is much much appreciated

Can anyone offer advice? I've been looking around day in and out and I can't find anything ):
Any help is very much appreciated

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Closed.

I figured out the problem.
ogfrier said:
i just recently used mini tool partition wizard to wipe all the partitions off my SD card and now that i did that my sd card isnt recognized on my computer. it shows up on partition wizard and ive tried about everything i can think of but it wont show up. and i even switched SD cards and it still wont, and ive tried different usb ports and different usb cords. so im not sure if i did something wrong in partition wizard or what, all i did was wipe partitions and delete partitions on my sd card. it mounts on my phone and it says "blank SD card" and when i click the notification it pops up and says format SD card and i go ahead and format it. im getting pretty irritated to be honest and i feel like ive went through every option i can think of ive restarted the laptop ive rebooted my phone i even flashed a old backup of my old SD card ive factory reset and all so im completely lost, so if anyone can offer any advice its greatly appreciated.
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are u saying u changed the sd card on ur phone and the new one didn't show up either when u enabled mass storage..??
did u try using a card reader..??
are you used card reader for partitoning?
Put the card in a card reader.
Then open minitool.
Right click on the top slab where your memory card is shown and select delete partition.
Apply.
Now you will have unallocated space.
Create new partition, fat32 and primary.
Apply. I guess that would solve it.
Well I figured it out. I had to go to disk manager on my laptop and change the removable disk name and the file it shows up under. Thank you guys though, and no I wasn't using a card reader. I was just trying to wipe my partitions then create a bigger one so I can have more internal storage if that makes sense.
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So i've determined that the issue is with the exFAT file system. If I format the card in FAT32 it works fine, but this is a 64GB card, and I want to use exFAT.
If i let the phone format the SD card when it is unformatted, it uses exFAT but the card STILL isn't able to be mounted...do I need a custom kernel or something?
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So bottom line the card still showed 64GB and worked as long as it was FAT32?

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41 views and not one person has any input? guess i'm going to have to format the card and hope that works. really sucks balls. wish i at least knew for sure what caused this problem.
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JAREDR said:
had the exact same issue. I had just purchased a sandisk 64 gig the week before and when it happened I had a hard time believing it was the card that went bad. I had no luck recovering anything off of the card but did format it and it has worked fine since.
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its not the card...............its the formatting of the card. it has to be formatted fat32 for it to be recognized in cm10. stock format is exFAT
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