Questions tagged [sd-card]

Questions related to using Secure Digital (SD) card with Ubuntu machine, related issues, etc.

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Internal SD card reader not detected HP realtek RTS5227

I recently installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my HP Envy m7-j020dx. The only problem I am currently having is that the internal SD card reader does not seem to be detected at all. I have tried to find a ...
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Importing corrupted photos in Shotwell on MSI Modern 14 (Ubuntu 19.10, 20.04)

When I use a SanDisk micro SD (64 gb exFat formatted), every import in Shotwell is fine. But, when I switch to a SanDisk 32 gb SD card, every photo that I try to import is corrupted (parts of the ...
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Repair ubuntu 19.10 on raspberry pi

I'm using ubuntu server 19.10 on a raspberry pi 4, and my system is installed on a micro SD card. Yesterday I tried to upgrade ubuntu from 19.10 to 20.04 by using sudo do-release-upgrade. After a few ...
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Microsd card can't be mounted; none of previous solutions worked! Ubuntu 18.04

I have a sand disk microsd card (Extreme Extreme microSDHC 3), it is brand new. Unfortunately, I can not mount it. I tried several solutions suggested but it does not seem to solve the issue. I will ...
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Installing Ubuntu onto a SD Card on Microsoft SurfaceBook 2 (UEFI)

I've successfully created an Ubuntu boot-able USB Flash Drive. Then, booted from UEFI on the SurfaceBook 2, by pressing Down "Power Button & Volume Up button at the same time". After that, I'...
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Problem mounting SD Card

I am currently using Ubuntu 18.04 and I am trying to use my 128GB SD Card. I have no idea what I am doing and I have done research on how to do this but nothing is working. Some websites say I need to ...
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Restore an USB and/or microSD card to normal after using it to install Ubuntu

I used a bunch of SD cards and USB along the years to install several Ubuntu in different computers, and now I would like to recover those cards to use them for normal storage. I can't seem to find ...
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Raspberry Pi 4 18.04 SD Card Partition Size on Boot

I'd like to limit how large the root partition resizes to on first boot. I've done this with different flavors of Linux on different boards, but can't seem to find out how for 18.04 on the RPi4. ...
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Failed to format SD Card

I'm having problem with my SD Card. I want to write an image file to my SD Card with etcher, but unfortunately it was interrupted by accident. Now I can't format it anywhere. First I used SD Formatter ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 suddenly stopped reading files from CF cards

Thanks in advance My computer still recognizes the cards, I can open them but there are no files. This is across multiple cards, and after multiple formatting attempts. Other computers and cameras ...
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Is it possible to install Ubuntu FROM a smartphone?

So, I'm in a situation were I want to install ubuntu in my laptop (currently running windows 8) but I don't happen to have pendrives, CDs or the like available. The only "external" device I have with ...
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SD disk with win 10 is corrupted - how to fix it?

I'm currently using Ubuntu but would like to also install win 10 - But I cannot do anything with my SD disk Any ideas how to fix it? <- I dont care about data at /dev/sdb, just wanna make it work (...
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Best method to improve performance on an sd card/mmc with HIGH bulk write but LOW random write/read. (Raspi/SD boot)

I am referring directly to raspberry pi (4) but im also not sure what to do if i boot from an SD Card on my Laptop. It makes sense to me that it would be increasing write cache - which in windows I ...
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Can't copy .wav sounds from USB to SD card reader

I want to copy .wav sounds from my SD reader to my USB drive but it doesn't seem to work. It does work with Windows with the same devices and files. Error code: Error opening file “/media/...
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SD file system possible in Ubuntu?

I plan on transferring Nintendo 3DS data to a larger SD card. For this Nintendo recommends formatting any SD card to the compliant SD file system created by the SD Association. Windows and Mac are of ...
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boot ubuntu installed on an SDCard from a grub installed on a Hard Drive

Context I'm trying to get a dual boot Ubuntu18.04-Windows10. I already got Windows 10 installed and what I want is to get Ubuntu to dual boot from my internal SDCard. So What I managed to get is ...
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SD Card Not Recognized as Bootable

I went to the BIOS of my Asus S550 CM , Switched on CSM. I have a light weight version of Linux copied to a 16 GB SD Card. No where in the BIOS the SD Card is recognized as a bootable device. How ...
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ubuntu 19.10 corrupts ntfs formatted sd card

I have a micro SD card ntfs formatted and inserted in a dual boot machine (win 10 / ubuntu 19.10). While it works fine with win 10 (both read & write), every attempt to write to it in ubuntu leads ...
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exFAT micro SD not detected Ubuntu 18.04.1

128GB Micro SD card with exFAT partition does not get detected on my Ubuntu 18.04.1. I have installed exfat-fuse and exfat-utils but nothing happened when I try to reinsert the card. I can't see the ...
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Can I install programs/applications on a separate drive

So, the main drive on my Acer Aspire R3-131T (model no. N15W5) laptop is only 32 GB, on which I want to install Ubuntu. That's not enough space to also install the programs I want to run as well, so I ...
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SD Card Reader not working

Yeah, I am very new to Linux, so please, if you have a solution for me, make it very descriptive cause I have no idea how to use this thing now. It shows my card in the file manager, but when I click ...
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Blackscreen after accessing SD Card - Ubuntu 19.04

I do have an issue with my laptop (using Ubuntu 19.04) and my SD Card. My laptop (Lenovo MIIX 320-10ICR) has an SD card slot, and if I put in the SD card everything seems to work, it does get mounted,...
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Ubuntu can't read SD card after camera adds photos

I have an SanDisk SD card it works very well on ubuntu, it reads/writes files as normal. But after I put the card in the camera and take some photos it doesn't work properly on ubuntu anymore and it ...
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SD card is not mounted in Lubuntu [closed]

I have a 2 GB Transcend SD card for my camera, but when I entered it in my laptop's SD slot then it was not mounted automatically by Lubuntu. I did not have the same problem with Ubuntu. I can not see ...
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Why is my Ubuntu Bootable USB not logging me in?

Created a bootable Ubuntu USB from a Sandisk Ultra 32G 100MG(READ). I installed it from an SD card (3.0 USB) adapter with 64G and 170R 90W. The installation went smoothly. My PC will boot onto it ...
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SD card won't mount despite it working on OSX and otherwise

I have an SD card (used for a Nintendo Switch) on which screenshots are stored. I normally take these to my MacBook to transfer, and it works. However, it does not work on my Ubuntu 18.04 laptop. (...
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Ubuntu 18.04 doesn't read SD card (Realtek)

I have Ubuntu 18.04 on a Dell Inspiron 11" laptop, which according to the spec has a Realtek card reader. It worked fine from Windows, but not since Ubuntu was installed. I've tried various ...
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How to use exFAT-formatted SD cards?

Ubuntu 18.04.3 didn't recognize my SD card. I don't have any error or any information pop up about reading the card. I thought I might not have the exFAT library, so i did: sudo apt-get install exfat-...
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Using dd to copy an img file to an SD card

I am trying to copy an img file into an SD card in order to use in a Raspberry Pi. I use the instruction: sudo dd bs=4M if=/path/to/my/image.img of=/dev/sdb1 Where sdb1 is my SD card which I ...
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Users that aren't sudoers can't write SD images

I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 on my laptop. My son has a Raspberry Pi and uses my laptop to write SD card images as it had an integrated card reader. Whilst he can mount, format, read and write the cards ...
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SD-card reader suddenly stopped recognizing cards

Recently my sd-card reader stopped working. The weird part: 5 minutes earlier etcher successfully wrote an image to an sd-card. After wanting to write another imagefile, no sd-cards could get ...
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SD card insert/remove behaviors not detected until running lspci command

Whenever I insert/remove SD card, my ubuntu doesn't recognize those behaviors automatically. I have to run lspci command to manually tell ubuntu about the hardware change. I want to make my ubuntu ...
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SD card not working :[ 249.480884] mmc0: error -5 whilst initialising SD card

I have an issue with my recent Ubuntu. Actually I have all drivers (USB, WiFi, etc ) working fine however when I insert the SD I can't detect it. Also I find the following error kernel log: [ 242....
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Formartting SD Card - Corrupted FAT32 Filesystem

I have a corrupted SD Card whose filesystem is FAT32. I tried the following stuff but i am still able to see the contents in the SD card. I can neither add new files nor can i delete any files from ...
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How to Increase Root Partition

I put an Image of Ubuntu 18.04.3 onto a 32GB SD card. It came with no desktop, so I am trying to install xubuntu. When I try to install it using sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop I get the ...
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Sandisk Extreme 128gb XC is not recognised

I'm trying to mount 128gb Sandisk Extreme and so far I failed. The SD card is not recognised (not listed by sudo parted-ls). What is more, the different card is fully recognised and automounted (not ...
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"Unable to access "Micro SD Card" - Not authorized to perform this operation

I have a micro SD card that I am trying to access to store documents. Currently running Ubuntu 16.04 on a Chromebook using Crouton. I've been trying every solution I can find, including formatting ...
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Ubuntu "mmc0: Timeout waiting for hardware cmd interrupt" error, no SD card

Yesterday I did a fresh Ubuntu install on my new mini PC (It came shipped with Win 10 Pro). The mini PC is a Belink u55. Now I'm running into the issue that I keep seeing a lot of errors on my screen ...
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SD card showing up in `dmesg` but not elsewhere

I am trying to mount an SD card using built-in reader on my Dell Inspiron 7570 running Ubuntu 19.04. When I insert the card, dmesg says: $ dmesg [...] [ 202.433303] usb 1-6: new high-speed USB ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 micro sd card locked readonly

I am running Ubuntu 18.04 on one desktop, and Windows 10 (19 something the latest version), on an old Dell Vostro-220 on another desktop. The mission is to flash an android OS onto a micro SD card for ...
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SD Card Not Recognized After System Sleep in Ubuntu 19.04

On first boot of my computer (Ubuntu 19.04) SD cards work normally: When I insert one, the /dev/mmcblk0 block auto-mounts to /media/user. Sometimes I close the lid of my notebook and, consequently, ...
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DELL 3180 built in card reader not reading 128GB sd card

I'm new to linux with lubuntu on my Dell and found when a micro SD card inserted into the card reader it doesn't show up. I searched several site and found some info about bugs but can't seem to find ...
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Creating a partition with sfdisk

I am working on a lab which needs me to format an SD card with two partitions. I have formatted the SD card, discovered it as sde1 and then i ran sudo umount /dev/sde1 before running: sudo sfdisk /...
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unable to mount a NTFS SD card Ubuntu 18.04

I want to access the SD card of my mobile. So I removed it from my mobile and connected it via SD card reader /USB with my kubuntu 18.04 PC. $sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdc1 32768 249737215 249704448 ...
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Can we format SD card present in nikon dslr from computer connected over USB cable

I have to format the SD card present in dslr (Nikon) from desktop (preferably ubuntu) connected over usb cable. I am using ubuntu desktop with libgphoto2 camera library to control my dslr. I can ...
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Unable to access SD Card

I changed the filesystem format of my SD card to NTFS so applications on my system to write to it. I couldn't access it anymore, so I changed it back to FAT, but I still can't access it as root, or ...
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Ubuntu can't read 64GB SDXC

My new 64GB SDXC UHS I cards do not appear in Gnome Disks let alone mount. On the same laptop and SD card reader, mounts fine in Windows 10 and my cameras. I have a 32GB SDHC UHS II formatted as exFAT ...
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How do you format a micro sd card?

I recently bought this micro sd card, and I think I am having trouble formating it. In my mp3 player, it says card error. So I took it to the computer. After clicking on the file icon, I clicked on ...
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Install and run Ubuntu within a microSD Card?

I'm trying to install Ubuntu Budgie 18.04 into my 64GB microSD card. The microSD is plugged in with an adapter and it's not locked, not even while inserting it. It all went fine but i get a strange ...
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128GB MIXZA SD Card not recognized by Ubuntu

When I plug in this SD Card into the Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTS5129 Card Reader Controller SD Card reader of my laptop it does not recognize it and dmesg gives the following errors: [10447....

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