Every now and then you have to delete an SD card from an old Raspberry Pi project. Everybody who has seen such a card in the explorer knows that it is usually divided into two partitions. Looks weird, but is easy to format 😉 I have made a tutorial below, how you can delete your SD card correctly on Windows via Diskpart.

First, open Diskpart by typing “Diskpart” into your Windows Searchbar or directly into CMD.

List all Disks connected to your Computer. Choose the one you want to format. Pay attention to choosing the right one, you don’t want to delete your computer’s drive.

list disk

Selects Disk Number X. Replace X with your disk .

sel disk x

Create a new partition and activate it, so the Disk shows up in your Explorer.

create partition primary

active

Now, you can format the drive, if you want to. You can do that in Explorer too.

format fs=fat32 QUICK