Questions tagged [sd-card]
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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Linux filesystem cache and deleting lots of files
I sometimes have a need to delete large directory tree with lots small files from an SD card. Fastest way seems to copy the whole SD card to local disk with DD, mount it via loopback, do operations ...
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How can I find all the files that my GoPro contains?
I connected my GoPro Hero 10 via USB to my Win10 laptop. There is a 512 GB SD card (~= 477 GiB) in the GoPro Hero 10. Windows Explorer shows that out of the 477 GiB, only 10.6 GiB are free (i.e, 477-...
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Sd card was partitioned. Need it as 1
I have 64gb sd card. I put an ubuntu os on it. It failed to install. Went to format and overwrite to find it was partitioned. I tried diskmgmt. Tried right clicking on individual drives to delete them....
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Is it possible to boot a Linux OS from an SD card from Ubuntu?
For space reasons, I have a Batocera installation on an SD Card. Unfortunately, my laptop BIOS doesn't support booting from an SD card. The only drives it will boot from are USB, SSD and HDD.
Is there ...
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My 64gig SD card thinks its 32gig
so I cloned my 32-gig emmc into my 64-gig SD card with the "dd" command. The only problem is that it thinks it has 32 gigs of total storage... Does anyone know how to "convince" (...
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How to access a read protected SD card? [duplicate]
EDIT: please note unlike this question Fix SD card that cannot be formatted
I for 1 have READ protection, not WRITE protection
also, I dont want to format the card, i want to retrieve data from it. My ...
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How do I mount an f2fs partitioned SD card on Windows?
Similar to this question, I tried mounting my SD card using wsl. First I installed wsl:
wsl --install
This installed ubuntu, and after a restart I ran wsl and executed the following:
sudo apt update
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How to disable the popup "You need to format the disk in drive..." in Windows 10?
Creating OS images for a device, every time I plug the SD card, it triggers this pop-up for each of the unknown partitions.
After flashing the SD, it triggers those 10-12 pop-ups again.
And this, ...
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How to recover files from a healthy microSD card that is accessible only from an unrooted Android smartphone?
I accidentally deleted important documents (about 100 PDFs) that weren't backed up yet from a 64 GB microSD card, which is used as the primary storage in my unrooted Android 9.0 smartphone. The ...
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Boot Linux Mint from SD-Card
The problem:
I want a "moveable" Linux Mint image on a SD-Card. The SD-Card should have the linux installed and it should act as the storage of the system. I want to plug it in any PC and ...
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Create multiple sd card partitions with MS-DOS format under MacOS
I want to have 3 partitions on my sd card.
The Disk Utility does not give me this option when I select MS-DOS (FAT32) als format. The +/- buttons are greyed out. Only when I select APFS or MacOS ...
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sd card - cannot mount / format / partition
I have two sd cards of the same type: SanDisk Ultra UHS-I A1 32GB
One is brand new the other is already used.
Both cards show the same symptoms on my ArchLinux laptop (MacBook Pro 2013, system is up ...
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micro SD card reader overheating
I recently purchased this: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4001164055136.html, a tiny USB C micro SD card reader. When I was moving gigabytes worth of data, tby the end of it, this reader was heating ...
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how to compress entire debian distro into an iso backup to flash raspberry pi sd card later?
i specifically want to do this as i used berryboot to install a version of raspbian without a gui as i was going to be using it without a monitor for nonstop daily use. the problem for me is that ...
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SD-Card not working but is...?
I have a SD card that I removed from a system (Pioneer AVH-70 multitouch car radio that works on GNU software, for Citroen C1 / Toyota Aygo 2015, if I'm not mistaken) and that system is relying on ...
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Recover/Carve FAT32 file system metadata (file names etc.) without partition table
I have a broken SD card, of which I've taken an image. The image is fairly complete, >99% according to ddrescue, and conventional data recovery tools seem to be able to find most files. However, I'...
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Sd card suddenly dead [duplicate]
I had a kingston canvas select plus 128gb sd card in my s9+ (SM-G965F). One day i woke up and i saw some images of apps grey and when i tried to open them "app isn't installed". Also checked ...
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Use fsck to fix a corrupted exfat SD card that doesn't work on Android 12 anymore
After my Android phone crashed it brings an Issue with SD card and asks me to reformat it in order to use it again.
Luckily, on my Linux computer (Manjaro) the SD card is recognised and read without ...
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How to repair corrupt data (images) and make it readable?
I corrupted my data by taking out the SD card (which was used as internal storage) multiple times without running:
Eject/Unmount
Since using the SD card as internal storage was encrypted the card to ...
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Windows sd card setup for dual partitions
I need to setup a micro SD card in a particular way, but I'm unsure how to do it from Windows (unable to use any Linux machine in my current setup).
There needs to be 2 partitions: One is a standard ...
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How to hide a partition on an MBR-formatted SD card?
I have an SD card with MBR, and want one of the partitions to be hidden. I have tried setting partition types to 0x1B and 0x1C, but Windows 10 seems to ignore the "hidden" flag.
Is there ...
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Expose SD card as SD card through USB adapter
How can I get an SD card which is being interfaced with using a USB adapter to appear as an SD card to a computer? This would entail being able to get data about the SD card, such as its CID or CSD, ...
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diskpart - How do select FAT32 CHS vs LBA
I'm dealing with a pretty old embedded device, and I have extracted and analyzed the SD card that it boots from: Master Boot Record partition ID = 0x0b, aka FAT32 with CHS Addressing.
When I try to ...
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File dates copied with "cp -p" are set to "now"
I'm using my Mac to try to copy the content of a smartphone's SD card to a larger card. Because I don't want all the pictures to get new creation dates I used the --preserve option like this:
cp -pr /...
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Diskpart clean: Not deleing anything, but says "DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk." [duplicate]
I have an SD card that I can't seem to clean.
I'm running Win10, when inserting the SD Card Windows tells me to format the disk - but it always fails.
Using Disk Management I can (attempt to) delete a ...
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How to back up a Micro SD card with Linux bootable to a Linux VM running at Windows
I have a Micro SD card which was created with an embedded Linux, it is used to boot up a device. I need to take this card, plug to a flash reader and plug the reader to my Windows laptop. The ultimate ...
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How to repair damaged memory card without data loss?
I have a memory card in SDHC format with a capacity of 8.00 GB, on which my very important photos are stored.
When I connect it to the appropriate slot in the memory card reader, I get a warning that ...
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SD partition reappears after delete [duplicate]
I have tried deleting the partitions on my SD card (Which is not hardware locked) using fdsik, gparted and the ubuntu formater. All confirm the deletion but after the deletion the partition reappears ...
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Is there an equivalent of iso files for sd cards?
So that you can have a digital sd card just like an iso file which you can then mount e.g. using daemon tools? In order to simulate that there is physical a sd card mounted in a reader.
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microSD card jumps to read-only on one specific computer when using one specific program
I'm just gonna explain this situation, and I'd love to know what's going on, how to fix it, and ideally I hope this brand new microSD card isn't dead or something.
If I:
plug it into my Linux desktop ...
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SD card has to be inserted multiple times before partitions are detected
When I insert a SD card on the slot for the SD card, the OS detects that a disk has been inserted, however the partitions are not listed so I cannot mount the card to access the partitions. I have to ...
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Can I rebuild Esxi on a new SD card?
I am running ESXi 6.0 on an SD card on a Dell server for testing but it appears there are issues with the SD card. After a series of power failures:
ESXi reboots but new settings are not saved after ...
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Windows recovery drive won't boot if the SD card it resides upon is write protected(by sliding the switch on it's side)
Got a MS Surface computer behaving like that, while all other "normal" computers(desktops, laptops) will boot from the same recovery drive(SD card in a USB card reader with physical write ...
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How do I add a non-Steam game from an SD Card in SteamOS?
I have an .exe file saved to my Micro SD card that I want to play in in SteamOS. Normally in desktop mode I can access my SD Card under "removable devices", but when I use Steam's "Add ...
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How do I access a second paritition of a linux sd
I'm having trouble finding a useful answer about this. But basically I need to edit a file manually (because I broke networking). I pulled out the sd card of my raspberry pi and injected it into my ...
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How do I read this SD card read benchmark?
I run Ubuntu's "Disks" tool read benchmark against a cheap 128GB Kingston microSD (SDXC / UHS-I / ⑩ / U1) card connected via a no-name SD card reader through USB-C port to my laptop several ...
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SD Card as a long term archive media using redundancy of data
For me, the chief fear of using SD cards for backup is reliability rather than storage capacity. SD cards are known to offer relatively high storage for little expense, compared to CDs and DVDs. ...
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microSD card doesn't preserve data and format
I recently bought a new 512GB Toshiba PRO Plus microSD card, SDXC card, to be used with a USB type-A adapter on Ubuntu or SolusOS (linux distro) primarily and to take backups of some 7zip encrypted ...
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SD card that was in Nintendo Switch cannot be formatted by any means (so far) [duplicate]
Brand new 256G SD card put in Nintendo.
Decided we didn't need that much space, so replaced with 64G
The 256 card won't format with windows storage manager, diskpart, sd formatter, balena etcher....
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How do hidden MMC patitions work?
This project allows users to access hidden boot partitions on the eMMC of Nintendo Switch, using a commercial SD/MMC card reader chip, Realtek RTS5170.
How do these hidden partitions work? Can I ...
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eMMC SanDisk DA4064 got slower 5x
Recently I noticed my Windows 10 on my Lenovo Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 1 81VT000MGE booting slowly (more than 1 minute).
I compared some benchmarks with benchmarks from 2 years ago and this eMMC SanDisk ...
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Micro SD Card reports wrong (too small) size
I wanted to put an old micro SD card back into service. According to the manufacturer it is a 128 GB card. However, FDisk and Parted say it is only 8 GB:
Parted:
(parted) select /dev/mmcblk0
Warning: ...
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File on card still accessible though card was removed
I got some really weired behaviour on at least 3 systems....
We have some (anonymous) ECG recordings on SD cards (max 512MB, FAT formated) which
are recognized a small deamon running in the background ...
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Linux - How do I find out how many bytes have been written during a file copy?
In linux (Ubuntu), I use a file manager to copy a large file e.g (500mb) to a USB sd card.
According to the gui, it shows completion in about 5 or 6 seconds (the destination file size is the same as ...
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Moving windows to another disk
I have a laptop that came with windows 11 home. The internal drive is 238.47GB nvme. It has 4 partitions, EFI, microsoft reserved, C drive, and windows recovery. I would like to move this windows ...
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How do I clone a system with a drive using a folder as its mount point to another identical setup?
So I am trying to come up with a reproducible solution involving old Chromebooks and windows 10. One of the major limits of these devices is, for most, small primary storage that cannot be trivially ...
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Is it now typical for USB SD card readers to ignore the write protect switch (lock protect tab)?
I recently bought a few USB 3.0 SD card readers, and they ignore the SD card's write protect switch (lock protect tab). I performed the testing in Windows.
I doubt it matters, but the card readers are ...
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advice for data retireval from SD card [duplicate]
Hoping to retrieve data from an SD card. Our story so far:
Inserted a 4GB SD card into a USB reader on a Win10 PC. The computer saw a directory prefaced by a dot (.Spotlight100), which contained the ...
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I tried running mk2partsd as instructed but it doesn't work
I'm new to Linux so have mercy on me. I've followed the steps on this site to make the micro sd card bootable. I ran the code it says to run, which is mk2partsd, but it has several errors. For one, it ...
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Trying to dual boot Linux using an SD card
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I am trying to dual boot with windows and linux on my Laptop. My laptop has a built in sd card reader, however there are no options or methods through bios or other services that would allow ...
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