If you’re faced with the problem that your SD card or USB drive suddenly shows as unallocated in Disk Management or even stops working on your Windows 11/10 PC, this post is intended to help you.

Tales of Raspberry Pi SD card corruption are available online by the fistful, and are definitely a constant in Pi-adjacent communities. It’s apparent that some kind of problems tend to arise ...

An SD card is just like a small hard drive — it's a device that can store and transport large amounts of data. If you've been using an SD card for a long time, you might need to clear it out.

If a reboot doesn't fix the error, clear the cache, reformat the SD card, or factory reset the entire device Reviewed by ...