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So for whatever reason, Linux would not read that card, didn't even detect it. I tried it on my sisters computer (which is Linux because it was a free PC and she didn't want to pay for windows) because I couldn't get Linnux to work on my PC, probably because I just stuck the ubuntu .iso file into the thumb drive, which I'm sure is the wrong way to do that.

 

The solution I found was to put it back into the camera, which did read the card, copy the pictures she needed onto the camera's onboard memory, and then put a new card into the camera, and copy the pictures onto that card. For whatever reason her camera didn't come with a USB cable, which seems crappy, but at least we got the pictures. Thanks for the help guys. I think the issue is that her old card is corrupt or damaged or something, which doesn't make sense to me because the camera could read it, but when I tried to format the card after getting the pictures, windows would not format it, giving me some kind of error message.

 

Thanks for your input guys. I know whenever I have an issue I can post here and get a response within like, 2 minutes which is always nice.

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Ok so I need some help you guru's. My mom is a real estate apraiser and she recently took some photo's with her camera. However when she came home and tried to upload them to her computer using an SD card reader, and windows 7 immediately prompted her to format the card. She hasn't done anything to the card itself, it seems to have just decided that the card is the wrong format, at random. Is there any workaround for this? If we format the card she will have to drive all the way back out to the customer's house and take a bunch of pictures all over again, and she'd rather not do that. I'd Appreciate any help you guys can give me on this. Normally I'm her tech support, but this goes beyond my knowledge.

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That's the only thing I can think of :(

Would a Linux distro be able to access the information without formatting the card?

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Usually it should ask you if you want to repair it if something is wrong...not format...

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Usually it should ask you if you want to repair it if something is wrong...not format...

I will give that a try.

 

Eh, I would assume so because they work with all file and format types.

Nope, straight to "you must format this card to be able to use it" that wonderful windows 7.

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Would a Linux distro be able to access the information without formatting the card?

 

Most likely. The format request that windows throws out is probably due to an incorrect file system. Windows also has a habit of throwing false positives in the BIOS checks, but that is usually for "repairs" rather than reformats.

 

If it does not load in Linux, it is a tell tale sign of low-level data corruption.

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Hmm... Not a single idea. Only saw instances of prompting to repair the storage media, not straight up format. You could try some Linux distro to get the files, but I'm not guaranteeing anything. Haven't tried that would Linux recognize more file systems than Windows (7) does.

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Most likely. The format request that windows throws out is probably due to an incorrect file system. Windows also has a habit of throwing false positives in the BIOS checks, but that is usually for "repairs" rather than reformats.

 

If it does not load in Linux, it is a tell tale sign of low-level data corruption.

Hmm... Not a single idea. Only saw instances of prompting to repair the storage media, not straight up format. You could try some Linux distro to get the files, but I'm not guaranteeing anything. Haven't tried that would Linux recognize more file systems than Windows (7) does.

Trying linux now. Downloading Ubuntu, gonna install it on my desktop usb 3.0 hdd and boot with that. I would assume that if linux can access the data, I can copy it, reformat the card, copy the information back, and load it up to windows 7 like normal?

 

Edit: What file system should I reformat it to in order to make it work on windows? I don't deal with linux and file system types very often so I've forgotten lol

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Trying linux now. Downloading Ubuntu, gonna install it on my desktop usb 3.0 hdd and boot with that. I would assume that if linux can access the data, I can copy it, reformat the card, copy the information back, and load it up to windows 7 like normal?

 

Edit: What file system should I reformat it to in order to make it work on windows? I don't deal with linux and file system types very often so I've forgotten lol

Reformat it to FAT32 or NTFS. Both should work with Windows.

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Trying linux now. Downloading Ubuntu, gonna install it on my desktop usb 3.0 hdd and boot with that. I would assume that if linux can access the data, I can copy it, reformat the card, copy the information back, and load it up to windows 7 like normal?

 

Edit: What file system should I reformat it to in order to make it work on windows? I don't deal with linux and file system types very often so I've forgotten lol

 

FAT32 should be the standard file system for non-PC devices. Yes that is a general procedure of how it is done, and it should work except in cases of drive corruption.

 

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So for whatever reason, Linux would not read that card, didn't even detect it. I tried it on my sisters computer (which is Linux because it was a free PC and she didn't want to pay for windows) because I couldn't get Linnux to work on my PC, probably because I just stuck the ubuntu .iso file into the thumb drive, which I'm sure is the wrong way to do that.

 

The solution I found was to put it back into the camera, which did read the card, copy the pictures she needed onto the camera's onboard memory, and then put a new card into the camera, and copy the pictures onto that card. For whatever reason her camera didn't come with a USB cable, which seems crappy, but at least we got the pictures. Thanks for the help guys. I think the issue is that her old card is corrupt or damaged or something, which doesn't make sense to me because the camera could read it, but when I tried to format the card after getting the pictures, windows would not format it, giving me some kind of error message.

 

Thanks for your input guys. I know whenever I have an issue I can post here and get a response within like, 2 minutes which is always nice.

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So for whatever reason, Linux would not read that card, didn't even detect it. I tried it on my sisters computer (which is Linux because it was a free PC and she didn't want to pay for windows) because I couldn't get Linnux to work on my PC, probably because I just stuck the ubuntu .iso file into the thumb drive, which I'm sure is the wrong way to do that.

 

The solution I found was to put it back into the camera, which did read the card, copy the pictures she needed onto the camera's onboard memory, and then put a new card into the camera, and copy the pictures onto that card. For whatever reason her camera didn't come with a USB cable, which seems crappy, but at least we got the pictures. Thanks for the help guys. I think the issue is that her old card is corrupt or damaged or something, which doesn't make sense to me because the camera could read it, but when I tried to format the card after getting the pictures, windows would not format it, giving me some kind of error message.

 

Thanks for your input guys. I know whenever I have an issue I can post here and get a response within like, 2 minutes which is always nice.

 

NP. I agree that is a very odd for a card to behave like this, but then again, nonmechanical storage has its quirks every now and then. It is good that you compromised a solution to tackle the problem anyways. 

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NP. I agree that is a very odd for a card to behave like this, but then again, nonmechanical storage has its quirks every now and then. It is good that you compromised a solution to tackle the problem anyways. 

I didn't really know if it would even work either. I fail to see how 2 windows 7 pc's, and a linux pc couldn't read the card, but the camera could lol

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