I just got through purchasing a new 32GB Micro SD Card to upgrade from the old & original Micro SD Card that came with my Uniden BCD536HP.
Once I receive it, how do I go about installing it correctly & get my Uniden BCD536HP to recognize it without losing all of my purchased upgrades, data, frequencies etc? I can't seem to find a Youtube video to guide me step by step on exactly how to do this, do it safely & correctly nor anything on RadioReference to guide me on doing this.
Plenty of info here on RR. It has been addressed many, many times.
Keep in mind that a brand new SD card (or a newly formatted card) will not work in your scanner until you use the "Clear User Data" function in Sentinel.
If there is nothing wrong with your present SD card, just copy all of the files from that card over to the new one.
If the present card is not functioning..... connect the scanner to your computer in the "Mass Storage" mode with the new SD card installed.
When connected to your computer, from the top menu in Sentinel, click "scanner", then "clear user data", then check the box that says "display all drives". If the SD card is showing up there, select it and finish the "clear user data" process and then "write" to the scanner from Sentinel to restore your data (assuming you have previously read all of your data from the scanner into Sentinel). Then disconnect the scanner from the computer and let it re-boot.
If the SD card doesn't show up in the step above, try reformatting the card using Windows with a card reader connected to your computer.... best to format using this program if errors continue:
www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/
and then go back to the "clear user data" step above.
The paid upgrades are not affected at all by replacing the SD card. There is nothing that the end user can do, in the normal operation of the scanner, that would delete the paid upgrades.
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