Secure Digital (SD) cards are a widely used memory card format used by many technology brands brands in portable electronic devices such as digital cameras.
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Correctly partition microSDHC card
I temporarily used my microSDHC card for flashing a BeagleBone Black embedded device. This process involved overwriting the entire card with a binary image that contained two partitions.
Now I would ...
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Can I save a VM Image on an SD Card?
I'm working with a VM Image in VirtualBox. Can I save it to an SD card and boot it from there? Can I save two machines on the SD Card?
Will VirtualBox put all files, related to the Images on that SD ...
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Looking for device to use multiple SD-cards as RAID backup device. (not RAID 0)
I'm looking for a device that can put multiple SD-cards, or USB sticks but SD-cards are preferred, into a RAID system. Also preferably accessible via USB so I can use it with a laptop.
I found ...
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Why can a SD card be faster on an external USB reader rather than on a builtin SD reader?
I have a Sandisk SDHC 4GB Class 2 memory card, and I have benchmarked its reading speed with Palimpsest Disk Utility, under Linux and with my Acer Travelmate 5720G laptop.
These are the speeds when ...
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Syntax error 177 on Raspberry Pi SD flash attempt on Mac OSX
I am trying to create and flash a SD card (14GB Ultra) on Mac using OSX using the outline in Raspberry pi for Dummies! After entering system password and pressing enter I get this:
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SSD, SD, eMMC, Raw NAND what are the differences?
so the underlying technology with SSD, eMMC, SD, USB Flash etc... is NAND flash correct? So is the difference between all of them just the way controllers are implemented? Or are the technologies ...
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Mount USB Device in Debian
I'm using a Siduction (a Debian derivative) on a Lenovo x230 laptop which has a built-in SD drive, and I'm trying to mount it to get some pictures of off an SD card. I've also tried connecting the ...
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What interface does a SD Card use?
What interface does a SD Card use? I looked at the Wikipedia article and they mention SDIO. However this seems to be just for non data transfer. Is the interface usb like? Completely usb? If it is not ...
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How do I “safely remove” (eject) an SD card or other removable media from the command line? [duplicate]
I can eject a network drive using net use X: /DELETE but when I try to use this same command on removable media I get an error:
The network connection could not be found.
More help is available by ...
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Need to unlock Coby tablet; MicroSD card not formatted [migrated]
My Coby Kyros MID7024 tablet is locked with a pattern lock. The person who set the pattern lock has unfortunately forgotten it. I tried to unlock the tablet using these methods:
The volume ...
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Lost files only appear in chkdsk statistics
I'm expreriencing a strange problem with an external SD card which has been mistakenly pulled out from the pc reader. About half of the files seem to have been lost because they do not appear in the ...
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Computer/camera not detecting sd card
I have an SD card that was fine until today. I was able to take pictures on the camera and it loaded fine on the computer.
Then, all of a sudden, the camera gives me a "Memory Card Locked" error. I ...
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Utilize unused hard drive space
I have a MK802 Mini PC with a nice 16gb SD card running Rikomagic Linux; however, I can't even tap into more than 3.7gb of it. The system image (.IMG) I installed on the SD card was ~7.8gb.
"fdisk ...
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How does sd card write lock work? [duplicate]
Is this a software or hardware feature. If it is a hardware feature, what tells the os that it is "write protected"? If it is a software feature, is there anyway to override this? Also, is there any ...
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How to use cygwin to copy an image from an SD memory card
Long story short, I'm working on a Windows 7 machine and I'd like to strip the image off an SD Memory Card (backing up the card from a Raspberry Pi). I'm trying to use cygwin, but not having much ...
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Reading Memory Stick Pro Duo in a N76VZ laptop
I have a MS Pro Duo card taken from a Sony digital camera to read. I don't currently have a camera cable for that model, and in one day I'll be able to return the camera to its owner for photo ...
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How to instruct windows to ignore the 'write-only' mechanical switch on SD cards? [duplicate]
I have a bunch of SD cards that do not have the little plastic switch for the read only. so windows thinks it's write protected or something. (the card IS NOT write protected by the software lock ...
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How can I install the Raspberry Pi OS to an SD Card
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Is there any way to burn the Raspbian OS to an SD card without the use of the Win 32 Disk IMG application?
If the above is impossible, could I go about converting the file on my mac, then ...
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Reiser4: completely disable journaling
How can journaling be completely disabled in a Reiser4 filesystem?
I don't see relevant options in mkfs.reiser4, nor in documentations.
The goal is to fit the FS into an SD card, where no journal is ...
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After an SD card is erased, what value is read from the card? All bits clear or all bits set?
After an SD card is erased, what value is read from the card? All bits clear or all bits set?
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Can I use dd to clone a larger SD card to a smaller SD card if the actual partitions will fit?
I have a 16GB SD card that has a few partitions on it (it's actually the card for a Raspberry Pi). I have several other 4GB cards that I want to clone the primary card to. The 3 partitions on the ...
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How to make Time Machine backup a SD card
I am trying to get my Time Machine to back up my 64GB SD card which I always keep inserted in my Mac. I tried a solution provided by @Olfan where he asks to run an apple script:
do shell script ...
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System files missing after copying an SD card in OS X
I copied all my files from a 4 GB to a 16 GB SD card via OS X Finder, and lost quite a bit of system files that my Android can't find. Is there a trick to get everything to transfer?
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Why is my sd card only readable in the camera but not in the computer?
I am not able to download the contents of my SD card which is full of photos from my Nikon camera.
When I put the card into my camera, I can view the photos, without a problem. But when I put the SD ...
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16GB SD card showing up as 0 bytes in size, 0 bytes free - Windows 7
I have a fairly new 16GB SD card, my laptop runs Windows 7. I want to experiment using it for ReadyBoost. So this morning I went to delete all the files from it to clean it up. There were many 1000s ...
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Lowlevel format of SD card [duplicate]
My SD card is defect. I can see that some pictures are not correctly saved (can't be opened) and I can't take new pictures. If I want to format it in Windows (chosing fast or really) it cancels the ...
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What are some good OS X data recovery programs to try on an SD card? [closed]
My friend imported a bunch of videos from his GoPro into iPhoto and foolishly let iPhoto delete upon successful import. He claims that iPhoto then quit unexpectedly and all of the videos are gone.
My ...
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How can I mount a sdcard and view it in /dev of a virtualbox guest
I'm trying to insert a SD card into my laptop (it's got a side slot for one) and have it show up on the guest machine running in a virtual box.
Host: Windows 7 64 for x86
Guest: Ubuntu 64bit
I want ...
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How can I set a Removable External Device as a built-in Hard Drive?
I am using SSD with my laptop and running out of free space..
So I bought an 64GB microSD card as a secondary storage.
But, when I launch My Computer, the SD card drive is recognized as, of course, ...
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Mount exFAT on Windows
I have a Lenovo Carbon X1 with a 128SSD. I'm dual booting Win7 (need it for a couple of apps that don't run on Win 8) and Win8, so once the OS and apps are on the drive there's not much room for data.
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Reading the 2nd partition of CHDK-enabled SD card in Windows
I have a canon camera from before 2011. I've made my 8GB card bootable in the camera by creating 2 partitions, boot partition of 2GB FAT16 and a FAT32 one with all the rest: photos, alternate firmware ...
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Can't format or delete any files on SD card
I have a 16 GB SD card i'm trying to format for use.
In Windows if I try to format it says Windows was unable to complete the format, and in Linux when I do fdisk -l -u, fdisk just hangs when the SD ...
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How to migrate SD Card with Linux?
My scenario is simple: my android phone has internal microSD card with size of 2Gb and I run out of space. Now I bought a new 16Gb microSD card where I want to migrate.
Steps:
1. Insert old sd card, ...
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Why can't I enable software RAID on a pair of SD cards in Windows XP Embedded?
I was hoping to set up software raid between a pair of SD cards (for redundancy) in an embedded device but as I understand it, I need to upgrade them to dynamic drives to do this.
The cards appear ...
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How to prevent any Windows 7, 8, XP install to write $Recycle.Bin, System Volume Information on multiuse (Android, Linux) FAT32 SD cards/USB sticks? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I get Windows 7 to NOT use the recycling Bin on a removable drive?
It's not enough if I set up my machine to work properly, I want to be able to use the SD cards ...
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How do you format a 2GB SD card to FAT32? (Preferably with Disk Utility)
I've been looking around for a way to do this for a while, but haven't been able to find the answer. I need to format my 2GB SD card to FAT-32, but I don't see the option in Disk Utility.
If I ...
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Are UHS SD Cards backwards compatible with existing readers and other hardware?
I was shopping for a couple of new memory cards for new cameras this year and noticed that there are some SD cards that are now UHS-1 compatible. I wasn't sure what that really meant so I went looking ...
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Is an external hard disk hard disk necessary for not over-using the sd on a Raspberry PI? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What’s the life expectancy of an SD card?
I recently got my raspberry PI and I was thinking about using it as a torrent box.
For that, would you advise to connect an ...
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How to clone micro SD card
I need to clone micro SD card, using Windows or Linux OS. SD card should be cloned as a whole volume, and not as partition. It may contains several partitions, some of them cannot be recognized by ...
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Test USB-connected SD card reader
I'm running a Linux system, so I'm asking a solution that can run on Linux, better if via terminal on a command line.
I have a laptop with an integrated SD card reader, which is connected to ...
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How to troubleshoot memory card read? [closed]
The built in memory card reader in my laptop mounts SD cards as read-only only. This happens both in Windows 7 and Ubuntu. Most of the time. Every now and then it works.
After a some ...
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Operating systems on SD cards
I was getting some wild ideas the last days, like putting some operating systems into SD cards rather than on my hard drive. I'll go further into details now and explain what lead me to consider this ...
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Access denied to a file on FAT file system
I just got a new phone which is supplied with a 2 GB SD card. I bought a bigger card to replace it and I want to copy the preloaded data to the new card.
The default card's filesystem is FAT and I've ...
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Laptop card slot read class 10 SDHC around advertised speeds
I am curious to know if my laptop can read SDHC without a special card reader. Say for example this sd card: SanDisk 16 GB SDHC Memory Card Extreme Pro Class 10 UHS-I (95MB/s), ...
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Access SD card from VMware player?
I have Ubuntu 10.04 running in a VMware player virtual machine. How do I access the SD card reader hardware from within the VM? I see no appropriate device under /dev or relevant messages with ...
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My 4 GB Micro SD shows only 30 MB total space and I am unable to format it
My 4 GB Micro SD shows only 30 MB total space and I am unable to format it.
I am unable to see any file.
When I attempt to format my card it shows windows is unable to format. Help would be ...
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How do I login to a preinstalled Ubuntu file system archive?
I installed a preinstalled ubuntu 12.04 desktop root fs archive on SD card and booting it on my new Chrome book.
I was able to boot and see the Ubuntu Login screen and able to login as guest. But how ...
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Automounting SD card when inserted in Ubuntu
I am trying to write a BASH script that automounts an SD card once it is inserted in the card reader, then move all pictures to a folder in the HDD and renaming each file to the date and time the ...
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Writing fails to MicroSD
I have a 16 gb Class 10 Ridata MicroSD card I bought on December which I use on my Galaxy Y phone. At first, it was working fine and fast. Now when I write to it, often times I get "Write Delay ...
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How to recover images from SD card? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Recover data from SD card
I usually format my SD card after I save photos to my laptop. Now I want to recover photos those are before I format SD card three times.
Is ...
