Anarchie505

I know if there was any sensitive information on there then someone could have been in really hot water if someone else had gotten hold of the card

I think I bought a few from amazon but some I bought really cheap at a store in retrospect it was kinda dodgy I might take them back and see what happens thanks for the help though

I didn't buy directly from the Sandisk site and I am now getting loads of weird .mp3 .jpg and .mov files so I think they might have lied and its a refurb which was formatted incorrectly. This would explain why EAUS is showing me photos of toddlers I've never seen before!

also @paddy-stone that doesn't explain why it shows up in a variety of programs as nearly double its displayed size!

wow its picking up really weird .jpg files ive never seen before but wont let me open them

it was a brand new card that was the weird thing

still not working with 'SD formatter 4.0' will try a different one

yep Rufus is a no-go just splurts out 'error when formatting card'

Hi! Sorry I am kinda new to the forum but I ran into an issue I thought was very weird and thought would be nice if I could fix. Basically I was experimenting with a few different Raspberry Pi projects and was downloading various ARM Linux distros and installing them onto SD cards with Win32 disk imager and Rufus and the like. Then, one day I downloaded an OS which I cannot really recall and installed it onto the SD card. I then ejected the SD and proceeded to try and boot the Pi. It would not boot, so I decided to place it back into my PC for formatting and reinstallation. Then, I started to have problems. Firstly I got an error message which said that it was an unrecognized filesystem, which is sometimes normal when installing Linux, so I went to format it and the damn thing said that it was a near 16GB SD when in actual fact on the outside of the SD it clearly says it is 8GB?! I browsed online and I could see people had problems with it displaying a smaller partition than usual and I did encounter that issue once , but I just used diskpart to fix but this thing isn't even able to format in diskpart. When attempting to format, it says that the SD is write-protected, despite the little 'lock' thing on the side always being unlocked, I tried to fix this with some registry editing but nothing has thus worked. I know its probably easier to go and buy another SD but I can't be arsed and it would be nice if I could just fix this, so please help. I have attached some pictures below also for reference. Thanks for reading