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Howto delete a virtual sdcard i created. help! hd is maxed

Mar 16, 2015 8:38AM PDT
http://7labs.heypub.com/tips-tricks/bluestacks-sd-card-internal-memory-ram.html
Above link is steps i followed trying to fix my issue.

I was trying to speed up the run speed of bluestacks. Found a walkthrough that said to create a virtual sd card. I created one but allocated all my memory to it. Now my c drive is full! I need help on how to locate where it is and delete it so i can re-allocate less memory. This is the link to steps i took. I got to create sdcard.fs but not sure on location where it is. Obviously somewhere on my harddrive since it now has 200gb more than what it had in usage prior to me creating virtual sd card. Please help.

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Re: find file
Mar 16, 2015 8:50AM PDT

I'd boot from a Linux disk and go searching. The ls command in Terminal might be what you need: something like ls -R sdcard.fs after you went to the root.

Any Windows disk that lets you boot in the command prompt or the recovery console (depends on your version of Windows how it's called and how it's done) would be fine also: then the command is:
dir sdcard.fs /s

Kees

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That same article shares where that file is.
Mar 16, 2015 8:54AM PDT

"Bluestacks SD Card location on Windows

The SD Card of BlueStacks App Player is actually a file that resides on your computer. BlueStacks stores all SD Card data in that file. It's like a virtual storage drive used by BlueStacks. This file can be found in the BlueStacks Program Data folder of your System Drive (C:\Program Data\BlueStacks\Android if Windows is installed in C Drive). The Program Data folder is hidden by default, so you might have to enable "Show Hidden Files" to access the folder.

After you enable display of hidden files, you should be able to see a Program Data folder in the root of your System (Windows installation) drive. Go to Program Data >> BlueStacks >> Android. Here, you can see a file named "SDCard.sparsefs" (although it looks like a folder). We will create a new SD Card here and link it with BlueStacks."

So why not delete that?