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I found a 32gb SD card in a draw. I put it in my computer and it only reads 30mb of storage capacity and it needs to be formatted.
But it can't be formatted because it's write protected.
I plug it into some computers I have and it doesn't get read at all. What's on this SD card and why doesn't it want me to know? What did I use this SD card for before?
I could probably write a haunted media story about it for reddit for 30 updoots
Have you looked at it on a linux machine?
I have, both through the file explorer and terminal. They're the two computers that can't detect it at all. One with an adapter and the other with a direct micro SD card slot
I was meaning less of a file view and more of a drive analysis.
I'll need to try that, thank you. But I'll have to see how it goes if both computers won't detect it
I know about it from analysing fake micro SD cards where they've effectively rewritten the drive data to appear as more than it was. I followed a guide, I can't remember what *nix tools I used.
I'll look into it and see if I can find a similar guide that lets me dive into the SD card more