8/23/2023 0 Comments Garmin express windows 10 conflictThis frees up enough space on the GPS internal drive to satisfy Garmin Express. system folder (if you can't see that, search page 1 of this thread for "step 6" instructions), using Windows File Explorer, right-click and Cut the file named gmapprom.img (careful there are other similarly named files on my GPS, this file was 2 GB big), and Paste this file to another location such as the Windows Desktop. My instructions above for a full system backup omit a key step, and I can't edit that post now to fix it but my omission is "step 6" as detailed on page 1 of this thread. Search page 1 of this thread for "jgermann FAQ" for complete instructions on doing a full system backup. Note that using the Garmin Express backup feature does NOT perform a full GPS system backup. It is possible no reformatting or a Quick Format would still work, but if not, consider using the Format settings above.įor safety before proceeding, since I was going to edit files on the GPS internal drive, I performed a full system backup of the Garmin internal drive to my Windows Desktop, which I could recover in the event my GPS stopped working. Actually as you'll see below, even a 2GB microSD card may have been big enough for my GPS model map update, though I didn't test that.) My 32 GB microSD card was reformatted in Windows 10 File Explorer with Quick Format **unchecked,** File system set to FAT32, and Allocation unit size changed to "Default." This reformatting takes maybe 15 minutes for a 32 GB SD card, not a few seconds. Search Garmin customer support for your model before buying a card. (Maximum allowed capacity of other GPS models' card slots can vary. I added an aftermarket microSD card to the tiny card slot in the back of the GPS, no more than 32 GB as allowed for my Drive 50 LMT GPS. In more detail for any later lurker having this same issue, I needed to do the following to resolve my issue: This freed up enough space on the internal hard drive so that Garmin Express would perform the update. I did not get to test those solutions before I resolved it by removing the previous version, 2 GB map file from the internal memory of the GPS. It is very possible that my problem would have been resolved if I had cloned a map update onto the microSD card, or if I had only renamed the map file, as suggested. ![]() This problem is now resolved, and following is a solution that worked for me. For this reason, Garmin Express would not update and also balked at accessing a microSD card I added to the drive to do the update. ![]() My problem was that I was unable to update to the latest North America maps on my Garmin Drive 50 LMT GPS's internal drive, because I had only two *megabytes* of free space on an internal drive with 3.3 GB even after deleting my custom POIs.
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