SD memory cards are the most used storage device with digital cameras, PDAs as well as small electronic gadgets. For smartphones as well as drones like small gadgets are using MicroSD cards as they are smaller in size. MicroSD cards can be inserted into a standard SD card adapter, so as they can work like SD cards too. You can not directly insert a MicroSD card with your card reader if you have only an SD card reader.
There are some solutions available which help you to insert your microSD cards with a MicroSD card adapter which you can directly connect with your computer or a laptop too.
How To Put Micro SD Card in Computer
If you want to transfer data from a MicroSD card to and from your computer, you can use a MicroSD card adapter, as many laptops don’t have a microSD card slot.
But most laptops, computers, and PCs have a USB slot. MicroSD card adapter has one slot to insert a memory card into it and another port is a USB port so that you can easily connect a microSD card with your PC or a laptop in few easy steps.
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Use Micro SD Card on Computer
Nowadays there are many card adapter that comes with USB ports, so you don’t need a card reader. Follow the steps below to Insert a Micro SD Adapter into a Laptop or a desktop computer.
- Insert the MicroSD card into an adapter
- Connect the USB port of the adapter to a PC USB port
- Access the data on the MicroSD card from a computer
Now you can copy data from and to MicroSD card from your computer. Data transfer between your memory card and the computer will be made easy using memory card adapters.
We hope this guide on how to connect micro sd cards to computers has helped you.
Unmounting MicroSD card from a laptop
To unmount the MicroSD card, make sure that all data transfer has finished and there is no currently active data transfer between devices is there.
- Just right click on the drive(where your card is inserted)
- Select Eject from there.
Formatting a MicroSD Card
There are chances that you are struggling to access your microSD card from your computer or it might be affected by the virus. In such a situation, you need to format your memory card if your card doesn’t open on your computer or won’t show up on File explorer, or even don’t let you transfer the file on it. You need to format an SD card at that time so that it becomes compatible with your computer and you can easily transfer files on it.
To format your MicroSD card, Follow the steps below from PC:
- Go to Start Menu or Open My Computer
- Locate your MicroSD card drive there
- Right Click on it > Click on Format
It will bring you to another pop-up window. Select Quick format from there & choose FAT32 > Click on the format. Now your microSD card will be formatted & you will see a completely new MicroSD card drive on your computer. You can now easily transfer media files on it from your computer to your SD card.
We hope this article on how to use the MicroSD adapter on the laptop has helped you. If you have further questions regarding how to use a micro sd card adapter, feel free to share your thoughts in the comments section below.