Need help formatting a 128GB microSD card for a raspberry pi

[Jasama]

My son is trying to format a 128 GB microSD card for the raspberry pi he got for his birthday.

Windows being it's normal self does not recognize the drive.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Beavery1]

Windows isn't going to recognize the information on the SD card if it is already set up, because linux does things differently. When I worked with one from scratch, I just did a clean format then used win32diskimager to set up the OS I believe. Couldn't tell if it worked or not until I actually put it in the pi though(or if you tried running a VM with it I suppose).

This should have all the info you need for it.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/document...ation/noobs.md

[AOD_Paulharmo]

Try getting into Disk Management - even if it doesn't show up as as drive in Windows, it should show up there if it's working properly.

[RaazRuin]

Would probably be easier to get a hypervisor like VirtualBox (Open Source and Free) and attach the MicroSD card to a Linux VM.