micro sd card showing as OTHER file system

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  1. bartjunited
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    Ah OK
    I have a Bootable Ubuntu and it doesn't recognize the drive at all.
    There was a small partition at the start of the micro sd card too
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  3. bartjunited
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    Guys any more thoughts on this?
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  4. Megahertz
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       New #13

    bartjunited said:
    Ah OK
    I have a Bootable Ubuntu and it doesn't recognize the drive at all.
    There was a small partition at the start of the micro sd card too
    Linux can't recognize the SD card is a bad signal.
    Sorry, but cant think on anything else.

    Maybe @jumanji has some ideas.
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  6. bartjunited
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    No worries, if you guys can't think of anything then that's good enough for me. I'll just reformat the card.
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  7. jumanji
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    Micro SD cards are generally formatted as exFat filesystem, which is a Microsoft proprietary file system. It will have a small unallocated volume at the beginning. Don't know whether Linux will recognise this proprietary file system. I normally reformat it to NTFS when received..

    micro sd card showing as OTHER file system-10-04-2023-10-01-41.jpg

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  8. cereberus
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    jumanji said:
    Micro SD cards are generally formatted as exFat filesystem, which is a Microsoft proprietary file system. It will have a small unallocated volume at the beginning. Don't know whether Linux will recognise this proprietary file system. I normally reformat it to NTFS when received..

    micro sd card showing as OTHER file system-10-04-2023-10-01-41.jpg

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    It is my experience most sd cards are usually preformatted as fat32. I cannot think of a single instance for an sd card being exFat formatted unless being deliberately done by a user.
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  9. bartjunited
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    Thanks again everyone we can close this. I will just reformat the card as I can't see how we can retrieve anything on it
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  10. jumanji
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    cereberus said:
    It is my experience most sd cards are usually preformatted as fat32. I cannot think of a single instance for an sd card being exFat formatted unless being deliberately done by a user.
    May be. May be I delliberately did it for some experiment and forgot about it . But what I remembered was that when exFat formatted, there is an Unallocated volume in the beginning.

    And when viewed in Partition Wizard the exFat partition shows as "Other" as described by the OP.

    micro sd card showing as OTHER file system-10-04-2023-15-52-56.jpg

    In Windows 10, I can see all the data I had loaded into it.
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