Formating a micro sd card

[pottzie]

Just got a Pi2 and I'm trying to write to a micro sd card. My old Pi was one of the first types that used a large sd card. So far I haven't had much luck getting a micro card to format. Before I'd use gparted to erase the card and partition it to ex2. so far I've tried 2 cards and have gotten one that won't create a partition table and another that for whatever reason apparently can't be written to. Both are Sandisk cards I had laying around.

What little searching I've done was from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital
and there are some scary lines about write protection and DRM protection that can't be removed from cards. And then I clobber it with gparted, trying to overwrite the contents so I can install Raspbian. Not sure if this is an issue, I don't see anyone else having a problem, not sure what I'm doing wrong. I'm using a Fedora OS to do all this, if that matters.

[hansotten]

Try this:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/documentatio ... s/linux.md

[DougieLawson]

Use an adapter and your camera.
Use your tablet if it has a microSD slot.

[pottzie]

Got the card working by plugging it into a Windows computer. Windows 7 recognized it as unformatted and fixed it all with the speed of a million patents. Can't have too many patents, apparently.

Thanks.