SD cards are 24mm x 32mm in size and have high transfer rates at low power consumption which makes them popular for battery powered devices. SD cards are an improvement of the MultiMediaCard (MMC) and have in turn been improved as products termed SDHC (high capacity) and SDXC (extended capacity). ...
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Is it worth installing applications to removable flash media on Windows 7?
Without the funds to buy a SSD for my soon to arrive laptop, and the knowledge that Visual Studio 2010 can be quite slow at times on a normal hard disk, I was trying to come up with possible solutions ...
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SD memory card causes BSOD on Windows when inserted
An Asus Eee PC netbook started to get BSOD blue stop screen with ntfs.sys stated in its error message.
I found out that the cause of BSOD is a Transcend SD 16 GB flash memory card (similar to this ...
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How to tell SD card version?
As I understand, SD card can be V1 or V2. Within the V2 catagory, there is non SDHC and SDHC.
I have an 1G SD card. Is there any software or anything that I can tell if it's V1 or V2?
Thanks,
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How can I format an SD card with a more robust Linux-usable filesystem with a specific cluster size for better write performace?
Goal: microSD card formatted...
for best write performance
for use only with embedded Linux
for better reliability (random power failures may occur)
using an 64kB cluster size
I'm using an 8GB ...
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Different views of the same text in Microsoft Office 2003 and ANDROID (2.2) OfficeSuite [closed]
I downloaded from "4 Shared" a text called "A_ARTE_DE_LER__-_MORTIMER_J_ADLER.doc". When I open this text in Word (Office 2003 - Windows XP) the text is in Portuguese. When I open the same text on ...
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Copy files from SD Card
I have a brand new 4GB SanDisc SD card.
With lot of personal files. (jpg, exe, zip, rar, doc...)
When I insert card in my notebook internal reader... first I get this message.
Then, if I want to ...
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Is a SDXC card a viable secondary hard drive?
I have an SDXC compatible SD slot on my laptop that isn't doing anything and I saw a 128gb SDXC for around $150.
I was wondering if this could be use as a secondary hard drive?
If so, what would be ...
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how to access sd card from virtual machine?
I want to format SD card from my Linux virtual machine. I have in-built SD card reader in my laptop. I tried using virtualbox and vmware player and installed ubuntu 10.04 guest. None of them are ...
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16GB SD-memory card became corrupt, now stuck at 512kb
I've got two 16GB SD-memory cards that suddenly stopped working correctly. Windows reports that it wants to format them in order to make them functional again. However, I'm not able to make the new ...
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My 4GB Micro SD card only allows me to use 1GB
My phone came with a 4GB Micro SD card. On the card it lists that 3GB goes to 'Muve Music' which is Cricket's music program, and I get 1GB.. Well, I don't pay for Muve Music, so why waste the space?
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Is the lock mechanism on an SD card hardware, firmware, or software (driver,OS) enforced?
Where is the lock to read-only mode enforced with SD cards? Is this done inside the card itself physically, or in the firmware of readers, or in the OS? (Some other place?)
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SD card shrinks in allowable size after copying disk image
I bought a 16G SD card to put Android on to put in my Nook Color. I downloaded a Honeycomb distribution and wrote the disk image to it. Then I found the Nook Color takes Micro-SD cards, and decided ...
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Using SD Card on Dell Latitude e6520
I put a SD card into the SD reader on my Dell Latitude E6520 (Windows 7), but it isn't being read. I am not that familiar using SD cards, so I may be missing something obvious, but shouldn't it show ...
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Do I have a bad SD card?
I'm trying to copy data from my computer to an SD card. After a few hundred megs, I keep getting the following errors in dmesg:
[34542.836192] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 855936
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would you trust important files to SD card - after hard stopping DD procedure by pulling card out [closed]
I've SD card which I basically tortured. Used it as boot drive for server, than I screwed it up few times while attempted to DD to it using terminal from bigger hard disk - which got stuck, and I ...
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Can software operation damage an SD card?
My SD card has a broken boot sector and the tools I've tried say that it's not repairable (I've tried TestDisk, DriveRestore Pro and Easeus Partition Recovery).
The card was in my Android phone and ...
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How to repair SD card without reformatting? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Recover data from SD card
Is it possible to get back data from a Micro SD which is unresponsive?
Something happened with my SDHC card in my phone - after restart it ...
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How to find storage Device type from Mounted Volume.
How to find Device type from mounted Device?
eg: Lets say, I have connected Sd card in Windows 7 environment, which gets mounted at location D:\ . Is there anyway to find if D:\ mounted volume is ...
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Fix SD card that's reporting too large a size?
I have a 4GB MiniSD card that is reporting it has 6GB of space as opposed to the 4GB it's supposed to have. Is there any way to flash the card so it will report the proper size?
I've tried diskutil ...
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How to delete files from my indestructable memory card?
A week ago I started getting intermittent IO errors accessing the SD card on my rooted Evo 4g. I eventually plugged it into my windows machine and tried to format it. It appeared to work, but when I ...
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Are SD flash memory cards “secure”?
Regarding SD flash memory cards, SD stands for Secure Digital. Do SD cards or any of its variants (SDHC, SDXC) have any particular security features compared to other types of flash memory cards such ...
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Windows 7 Virtual Memory Optimization - ReadyBoost vs. Flash Swap vs. RAM Disk?
At first i thought ReadyBoost means having swap file allocated to flash drive which is wrong because ReadyBoost serves as additional storage for swap file or should i say it mirrors swap file on hard ...
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Windows 7 ReadyBoost - What File System To Use With Flash Card/Drive?
NTFS, exFAT or FAT32? I know that FAT32 has a limit of 4GB transfer per file, but is it faster and better than NTFS or exFAT? Since Windows 7 by itself uses NTFS, it remains logical to format flash ...
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What are the hidden files on my new SD card?
I just plugged in a brand new micro SDHC card; when I brought up Explorer there was a flash of a filename, and then nothing. The card shows as empty, but when I look at Properties it says there's 32K ...
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Running Operating System From Flash Card Or Flash Drive On Laptop?
I heard that flash memory cards are better than flash drives for this and they are also small things that fit into flash reader slot in laptop that don't stick and hang so you would be able to carry ...
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What are common failure modes of SD cards?
I have a Lexar 1GB micro SD. Neither Windows nor Linux recognizes the device when I plug it in. (The adapter reads other micro SD cards fine.) So I'd like to know what are the most common causes for ...
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LibreOffice prevents SD card from being ejected
When I try to eject the SD card which is generally always in my Windows 7 netbook using either the context menu or the "Safely remove hardware and eject media" icon the computer tells me it can't ...
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Partition SD Card?
I want to partition the SD card so that I can use Apps2SD application (on my Android phone, a Samsung GT-i5503). I just would like to know if I can partition my SD card using "Computer Management" in ...
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Restoring a SD card after using it to root a device
I recently purchased the Nook Touch reading device.
I rooted it using the instructions on nookdevs.com
Rooting included using win32diskimager to somehow transfer an .img file onto the card.
Rooting ...
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Dell 2408 wont read sd cards bigger than 2gb?
I've been using my monitors sub card reader for ages, but now I can't seem to be able to read anything more than 2gb using the reader.
Is this a hardware restriction or can I update my drivers for ...
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Rotated pictures on SD card can't be displayed on my camera
While viewing pictures on my computer directly from an SD card, I decided to rotate some of them. I then put the SD card back into the camera. However, now the camera does not show the rotated ...
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Recover SDHC card used in SD card reader
A while ago when SDHC cards were fairly new and all the office computers had only SD card readers I made a 4 gig Class 6 A Data SDHC unreadable and unformattable by trying to get it to work in SD card ...
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No autoplay when plugging my mmc sd
I'm on Windows 7. When I plug my mmc sd I hear the sound indicating it was identified (and when I unplug I hear the "unplugged" sound). However, the autoplay window doesn't show up. Also, the sd drive ...
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Which consumes more power: hard drive or SD card/card reader?
If I want to maximize the battery life on my laptop, where should I store my programs: my magnetic hard drive or my 16GB SD card?
If you say hard drive, does a card
reader draw significantly more ...
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Fastest SD Card Reader on a Netbook [closed]
Strange and difficult question:
Which netbook has the fastest built-in SD card reader?
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SD card hard drive: does it exist?
I was sent here from Photography Stack Exchange.
I'm looking for a portable hard drive enclosure (2.5" notebook) that plugs into an SD card slot and LOOKS like an SD card to the camera. The obvious ...
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SD hard drive: does it exist?
I'm looking for a portable hard drive enclosure (2.5" notebook) that plugs into an SD card slot and LOOKS like an SD card to the camera. The obvious advantage being unlimited space for video ...
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Will Texas Instruments Flash Memory Reader Fully Support SDHC Flash Card?
I bought my laptop in 2006 and i have Windows XP Home on it. On my Texas Instruments multimedia reader it says that it supports SD but does not say anything about SDHC. I heard some say to buy SDHC ...
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iMac - Intel - running OSX 10.6
In recovering files from a deleted SD card, the software re-created the card's ROOT directory - with the result that when using the photo software DxO on the RAW files, the program cannot save an ...
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SD Card reader not working on Sony Vaio
This laptop (Sony Vaio VGN-Z31MN/B PCG-6z2m) has been installed with Windows 7 64 bit, all the drivers from Sony's VAIO site are installed, and everything in Device Manager both (a) has a driver and ...
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How to safely remove SDHC card without disabling SDHC USB adapter? (Windows)
I have a USB card adapter I want to leave attached to my PC forever. When I insert a card, write things to it, and then I want to remove it, I don't have an option to just commit to that card -- just ...
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Writing limits in SD card?
I need to update a particular sector in SD card twice in a second. In that case, I would be writing in a particular sector for 86400 times for 12 hours. Will this cause sector to wear out so fast?
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Is there a utility that can identify the class of SD Card / microSD Card?
Looking for a utility for Windows 7 64-bit preferably that can tell me the type of SD Card or microSD card that has been inserted. Class-4 / Class 6 etc.
Freeware preferred, but willing to hear ...
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What would be the down side(s) to backup archival via SD cards?
While doing some photography reading, i came across some support for archiving photos, videos on SD Cards. The process looked like:
Fill up SD Card with DSLR
Share/publish any choice items via the ...
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Recovering a damaged microSDHC
I just bought from eBay a Kingston 32GB microSDHC that was advertised as defective. The seller said that there could be formatting problems or with transfer of large files.
Unfortunately, when I got ...
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(Debian) cold boot from SD card fails
I have an ION/Atom board that i want to boot from a SD card inserted in a reader which is connected via USB. The reader is built into the frontpanel of the machine's case and it's connected directly ...
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Choice of filesystem for GNU/Linux on an SD card
I have am embedded ARM-based system running on an SD card. It's currently Debian GNU/Linux using ext3 as filesystem. As I'm about to reinstall the system, I started wondering about changing to a more ...
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SD card file system gets corrupted after power loss
We have an embedded system running Windows Embedded Standard 7 (SP1 beta) on an SSD hard drive. We log data periodically on a SD card.
We had a power loss while the software was running (therefore ...
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Card reader (Ricoh) vs. windows disk management vs. truecrypt
this is an issue I ran into a few days ago and definitely can't solve myself.
There is a sd card reader (it's Ricoh 4-in-1) in a lenovo notebook. It is not taking any drive letter until SD card is ...
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Standard SD card and Micro SD card with adapter; same speed?
I'm going to buy a new SD card to be used in my car's audio player. What I would like to know is, if I buy a micro SD card with adaper, will it provide the same read/write speed as a standard SD card ...
