If the File System of your SD Card is other than NTFS (i.e. If the File System of your SD Card is NTFS, then you can jump to Step 3. Right Click on the SD Card Drive and then press Properties.Ĭheck the File System on the Properties window. Open a File Explorer and navigate to This PC. Usually SD Cards are formatted in FAT32 but let us check first. For Windows 10 case the main file system is NTFS. To be able to mount the SD Card as a Permanent Storage it must be formatted to the same file system as your computer’s main storage file system. Make sure that your SD Card is formatted to NTFS Note: This tutorial would also work on Windows Tablet who also has the same problems as I have. The microSD Card slot on my laptopĭo not worry, though, there is actually a way to make the Windows see your SD Card as a Permanent Storage.
Unfortunately, this becomes full quickly if I will be installing a lot of programs and add some cloud storage to it.įortunately, the computer has a microSD Card slot which I can use to expand my storage, but I could not install programs or put my cloud storage directory to it since it is not recognized as a Permanent Storage by Windows. I am using a laptop which only has 32GB for its main storage.
