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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Is it safe to install Linux on a SD card? [closed]
I would like to install a Linux system on a SD card. My idea is to have / (and possibly /boot) on a SD card and /home on a hard drive. This is for a small home server to be used for some torrenting, ...
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Virtualbox: Pass SD card slot from Linux (Host) to Windows (Guest)
I am working with a Windows 10 guest OS and Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS as the host OS with Virtualbox. I need Windows to be able to access my SD card.
I have been using Google for hours and most guides I find ...
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SD card not detected with Raspberry Pi imager on Chromebook
I decided I would install the Ubuntu server on the Raspberry Pi.
I have the Raspberry Pi imager installed on my Chromebook, but when I insert my micro SD card in the Chromebook’s SD card slot, the ...
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Can't format SD Disks on Apple Mac or delete data from SD Cards [duplicate]
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No matter what I do, I can't seem to format an SD Card, or even delete its data, on my 2021 M1 Mac Mini. Here's what's happening:
I buy a new SD Card, and use Raspberry Pi Imager to burn an ...
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SD card will not format to FAT32 using command line or formatter tools [duplicate]
I have an SD card that was being used in my dashcam in my car. I ran out of space while it was filming and the file became corrupted. Now, I can't format SD card no matter what I do. If I delete the ...
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Issues with SD card reader
I have a DELL VOSTRO SSF PC with a frontal SD card reader.
When I attach my SD card, the drive unit is normally shown in windows, but I cannot change the letter of the unit.
The change letter button ...
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Uninstall and reinstall raspberry pi desktop on chromebook
I have a 4GB Raspberry Pi which stopped booting recently. I want to uninstall and reinstall the os so it will boot up fresh. I don't have an adapter, but I do have a chromebook which has an sd card ...
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Cannot flash SD Card within Guest OS - VirtualBox
Background:
Host OS: Windows 10 Professional
Guest OS: Ubuntu 20.04
Host OS:
I am able to add files, edit files and add folders.
Verified that SD card is read and write card
Guest OS:
I am able to ...
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Why there is an empty unpartitioned space on my brand new micro SD card?
I've ordered micro SD cards multiple times from china, I always check them with H2testw to make sure they are real. However I've noticed something strange about the micro SD XC cards (only beyond 64GB)...
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How to increase unallocated space of SD card
I have a SD card used to have Raspbian on it. I am trying to write the lastest Raspbian image to it using Etcher. It is a San Disk Ultra 16GB disk.
Etcher reports this card as having size 32.1MB. ...
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Unknown partition table type error from u-boot running on Raspberry Pi 4
I've been trying to run the Linux on my Raspberry Pi 4 board. But, I couldn't even achieve running the u-boot properly. The board launches up without any problem and starts running the u-boot. The u-...
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How do I format a corrupted, write locked SD card? [duplicate]
A while back a power outage corrupted the SD card I was using on my RaspberryPi that was running raspiOS. I switched out the SD card and carried on.
I recently attempted to reformat that corrupted SD ...
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Mount a detected but not listed in disks list SD card [duplicate]
My problem is a bit complicated to describe knowing that I'm not really a passionate about partitioning, but here's what I'm trying to do, What I tried and what doesn't work :
Goal
My goal is to ...
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Why does balenaEtcher change the format of my disk?
I would like to flash Ubuntu 20.04 to a 32GB SD card to be booted in a Raspberry Pi.
I erased and formatted my SD card with the Mac Disk Utility app to MS-DOS (FAT) format with GUID Partition Map. I ...
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How should i factory reset SD card / USB drive st MacOS can automatically mount it?
After taking SD card from my IP camera (some version of linux), the card could not be mounted in MacOS anymore. In Mac DiskUtils, the card was said to have 0 free space and 100% used even after ...
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running chkdsk on SD card throws "Cannot open volume for direct access" error
Please consider that I am running chkdsk on the SD card, not my boot drive. Therefore solutions mentioned in other posts including "clean boot" or "safe mode" don't apply to my ...
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Unicode Error when trying to use Command Prompt with USB Flash drive or SD Card
I have problems when trying to use unicode characters like Russian characters (Cyrillic) on the Command Prompt (CMD). This problem only happens when I am on USB Flash drive or SD Card, which use FAT32....
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U-Boot only boots on some SD Cards
I'm encountering an issue where the RK3399 custom board I'm using won't boot (using U-Boot) from certain SD Cards. I'm currently working with two 16GB cards, a Gigastone one which functions and a ...
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SD card scam: Is it possible to undo and “hack” it back to the original size?
I bought a 1 TB Micro SD Card off of Amazon and got scammed. When I put it in the computer it looks like it's the right size. But if I reformat it or check the drive information with any kinda of ...
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What's wrong with my setup for booting up a Beaglebone AI board?
So I'm trying to work with a Beaglebone AI microcontroller. I can't get it to boot up.
I've written the most recent image of the software to the micro SD card as described here: https://beagleboard....
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Why does it so much time for Mac to identify and show external drive?
In windows when I insert my external HD / SD card it shows it within few seconds.
In my Mac it sometimes takes a few minutes!
What would cause this delay?
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Can't write to micro SD Card nor format it [duplicate]
I am using a 128GB micro sd card on my android phone, and i recently noticed that i could not write any files to it. Reading works fine.
I tried to format it using my windows computer, without success....
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Initialize RasPi running Ubuntu with separate information (additional user and .bashrc changes)
I was wondering of there is a way to initialize a RasPi running Ubuntu with some information before I insert the SD card? Meaning I want to write some default information to the SD card from my local ...
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Lifespan of memory card when only small data are written
Being Surface user, I have to rely on SD cards as my primary data storage. Most of big files will be stored long term and "read only", but some folders I will use as cache.
So lets say, if ...
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I am trying to mount my SD Card using Debian 10
This is the command I am sending:
sudo mount /mnt/chromeos/removable/SDCard /mnt/mydrive
This is what I get back:
sudo mount /mnt/chromeos/removable/SDCard /mnt/mydrive
mount: /mnt/mydrive: ...
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Fix corrupted exFAT upcase table manually
I have recently encountered the error "upcase table is not found" on my SD card formatted with exFAT,
after it worked just fine the previous day.
No tool I tried on Windows or Linux could ...
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Data degradation process [duplicate]
Studies have shown that data degradation for SD cards/micro SD cards start happening within a few months. I have a card that I haven't used for over a year, I had the SHA1 hash of the physical drive ...
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How to recover Micro SD, accidentally quick-formatted + 4 files copies onto it [duplicate]
I just accidentally quick formatted a micro SD card, with about 8 GB of pictures on it. I didn't know it was plugged in, and I meant to format something else. Worse, I copied 4 files onto it, ...
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How can I boot an OS, which only comes in floppy disk images, on a computer with only an SD card slot?
Particularly I'm talking about the FSD Amoeba OS.
It comes as a set of 3 1/2" floppy disk images, but as today's systems don't feature floppy drives any more (in my case, I only have an SD card ...
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SDCard constantly being corrupted
I posted this on stackexcange but people say it would be better to post here. So I copied and pasted
I have an sd card and I normally use it on a chromebook and it has no problems, but when I put it ...
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Format an SD Card used as Android adopted storage (android_meta and android_extended)
I have this SanDisk 32GB MicroSD card that's ended with two partitions android_meta and android_extended as result of a failed attempt to use the card as Adopted Storage in a Lenovo Phone.
Neither ...
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Assigning a Windows drive letter to a removable media brings a "Specified file cannot be found" error
I seem to be the only one over the planet to get this problem, as I spent 1,5 hours to find a solution and I couldn't even find a question...
One of my Sandisk SD Card has a strange behaviour. It's ...
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Unable to format Micro SDXC card: "fsync failed: input/output error"
I have a 128GB Micro SDXC I've been using to store music that seems to have died. I noticed it was transferring very slowly or not at all as I was syncing music to it. Running a quick error check didn'...
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What happens technically when a MicroSD (Secure Digital Storage Device) is not formattable, delectable, or reusable [duplicate]
My question detected as a similar question, and the similar answer is to throw your SD in the garbage! I want to update my question by asking, what happens technically when a microSD card happens to ...
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MicroSD (Secure Digital Storage Device) is not formattable, deletable or reusable [duplicate]
My question detected as a similar question, and the similar answer is to throw your SD in the garbage! I want to update my question by asking, what happens technically when a microSD card happens to ...
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128GB SD card thinks it’s 8GB after being cloned. How can I get it to recognize all of the free space?
I had an old 8GB SD card that I was using for my Raspberry Pi 2. I made an image of that 8GB SD card and put it on to a 128GB SD card.
Now when my pi boots with the 128GB sd card and I run df -hT, I ...
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Getting blocks of zeros after flashing SD card with dd
I've got a problem with writing an SD card with an image. What I want to do is to create an image of an SD card from files present on my hard drive.
My plan is to:
Create a loop device and connect it ...
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Is a USB flash drive basically equivalent to a USB card reader plus an SD card?
Is a USB flash drive basically equivalent to a USB card reader plus an SD card (or microSD card)? Or are they really two different beasts?
Related: Performance difference between SD and MicroSD cards?...
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How to determine when USB flash drives (or SD cards) are or are not appropriate for a task that involves write operations?
How does one determine when USB flash drives (or SD cards) are or are not appropriate for a task that involves multiple write operations?
One example of such a task would be to use to manage ...
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Can an SD card be damaged because of different transfer speeds between a device and the card
I have a Nintendo Switch that accepts SD cards that transfer at speeds 60 - 95 MB/s
https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/22481/~/microsd-card-faq#s1q3
I bought and SD card ...
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How to read SD card CID on Windows 10
Is there is a tool/way that one can read the CID of a SD card under Windows 10?
My laptop card reader seem to be plugged to USB bus rather than PCI bus if this matters.
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Unable to locate controller name of SD card
I am trying to recover my SD card as instructed in this question as it became write protected, however, I tried both tools ChipGenius and ChipEasy but both are not reporting what is the controller ...
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How do I get rid of these weird folders and files? Preferably without formatting the drive
After copying some files onto both my 16GB Micro SD and my 3.7GB USB drive, come of the folders got corrupted and I can't get rid of them. Windows gives an error, and seems to not be able to do ...
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Java Help Understanding RSA Encrypt/Decrypt file and SD card
I have zero experience with Java or Android apps (have coding experience in C) and tried reverse engineering a [now defunct/unsupported] app which would take a serial number* and encrypt it using RSA ...
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Connecting usb wifi dongle for wireless SD card with Ethernet for internet
my windows 10 computer at work is connected to the internet and network via Ethernet.
However what I’d like to do, if possible is use a USB wifi dongle to connect the computer to the EZ share wifi ...
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What is the life expectancy of an SD card, in terms of years? [closed]
PREFACE: I would appreciate answers accompanied by facts and references. While I respect pure opinions, they don't seem to comply with the rigorous requirements of superuser.com forum.
How long is the ...
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How to make a backup SDcard image when I can't find the device name using lsblk?
I've just installed Ubuntu and running with Windows 10. I've a linux SD card that is recognized as D: under windows, and I am able to mount in Ubuntu and access it's content using the following ...
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Microsoft Surface Pro 3 rejects SD Card - installing Python and Spyder on secondary drive
I got redirected from Stackoverflow to you. Maybe someone can help me with my problem:
I am using a Surface pro 3 tablet (Windows 8.1) and would like to learn to program in Python. Unfortunately, my C-...
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How to physically damage a USB stick, SD card, or SDXC card to permanently make it read only? [duplicate]
Over the years, I have had several cases where either an SD card, a USB stick or any other removable storage medium has had a physical defect, and after some use, or a certain amount of formatting, it ...
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Windows 10 sees Android folder with 5000+ files as empty
The SD card on my phone had a folder with about 5500 files in it. I could access it just fine on my phone, but whenever I connected it to my computer (Windows 10), the folder appeared empty. I ...
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