[Guide] Revert MicroSD card back to normal. - Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop

Since this question has been asked quite a few times in the ROM thread, I figured I'd make a little guide on this. This is just a couple methods to use, there are many other ways of doing this.
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[i]Disclaimer: You are doing this at your own risk, if anything goes wrong in the process I am not responsible[/i]
Method 1:MiniTool Partition Manager
I used MiniTool Partition Manager for this.
After you install it and open it, select Disk & Partition Management from the main screen. Then you'll get this window. Make sure you select the correct disk from the list. It should be listed as Removable and list the size of the MicroSD card. Right click on each partition listed for that disk and select Delete.
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After you have deleted all the partitions, right click on the Unallocated space for that drive and select Create.
On the next window it will have all the partition information. Make sure you select Fat32 or exfat, depending on how your card was setup previously for your switch. If you're not sure which one to use, just select Fat32.
After that it will show the partition to be created. I selected exFat because that's how I had my SD card set up for my Switch. Finally the most important part, click Apply in the upper left corner. Without doing this the changes made above won't be applied to the card.
After it's completed, you will get this window telling you that everything was successful.
Method 2iskpart
Warning: This method is all text based and there's no GUI. It's a lot easier to make things worse on your computer if you make a mistake. This is for more advanced Windows users.
Step 1:First start by opening a command prompt
Step 2:Then type in "diskpart" (without quotes)
Step 3:Then type in "list disk"
Find the correct disk number based on the size, in my case, it's Disk 2. This is the most important part. Selecting the wrong disk can royally mess up your computer.
Step 4:Type "select disk 2"(or whichever your disk number is)
Step 5:Type "list partition"
Step 6:Type "select partition #"
Step 7:Type "delete partition" initially I had 0 and 1 show up. I deleted partition 0, then diskpart had an error with the RPC service. I had to type exit to exit diskpart, then started at step 2 again and continued through to step 6. After step 5 it displayed a bunch of Partition 0.
Step 8:Type "delect partition 1", then "delete partition 1", then "list partition" repeat until all the partitions on that disk have been deleted.
Step 9:Type "create partition primary" After it tells you the partition was created successfully, you can close out of the command prompt.
Step 10pen your file browser and right click on the removeable disk and click on format.
Step 11:At this point the capacity should show the fully size of the SD card. Complete the format and your card is back to normal

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Much quicker and easier way is to use SD Card Formatter from here and select the volume with a long name, rather than any drive letters. This'll quickly format the whole SD to a single standard partition.

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Good to know, I always like to over-complicate things anyway. lol

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Dude, easiest way is:
1) Open diskpart
2) list disk
2) select [disk number]
3) clean
4) create partition primary
5) open file explorer and do quick format

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singing-potato123 said:
3) clean
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Wow, I had no idea that command exists. I've been doing things the hard way for many years now. That's good to know. Thank you.