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New Thu 30 Jan 14 19:19 
 Memory Card - No FM2R
One of the girls just found a memory card in the street. 4GB. I guess it'll have come from a camera or a tablet or similar.

However, my PC refuses to recognise the card and says it must be reformatted first. I'm not overly bothered and not likely to spend a great deal of time on it, but I had intended to look on it and see if it could be returned somewhere - someone might really want it back.

Any idea how, using a PC, I could determine what file system it uses and thus how it might be read?
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New Thu 30 Jan 14 19:26 
 Memory Card - R.P.
That's how a certain Middle Eastern power corrupted Iran's nuclear programme's computers wasn't - dropping a CD in the street, then some employee stuck it in a company computer...
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New Thu 30 Jan 14 19:30 
 Memory Card - Fullchat
Are you on Mac or PC? Ive tried putting an SD card direcly into slot on the Mac and it wanted reformatting. I then put it back into a stand alone USB card reader and was able to download images.
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New Thu 30 Jan 14 19:42 
 Memory Card - No FM2R
PC. In an external card reader and in its own.
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New Thu 30 Jan 14 19:48 
 Memory Card - Fullchat
Ok:( How about putting in a camera and USB link?
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New Thu 30 Jan 14 20:21 
 Memory Card - Boxsterboy
That won't work, unless by chance it is the same model of camera as the loser's one.
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New Thu 30 Jan 14 20:52 
 Memory Card - Zero
might do if the camera is set to save in jpg.

Chances are tho that memory card is cream crackered, thats why its been dumped in the street.
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New Thu 30 Jan 14 21:03 
 Memory Card - Crankcase
Part of cicada 3301?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada_3301

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New Thu 30 Jan 14 23:23 
 Memory Card - bathtub tom
A nicked camera/'phone or other device containing an SD card and the scrote dumped the card to remove incriminating evidence?
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New Thu 30 Jan 14 23:41 
 Memory Card - No FM2R
I messed around with it and couldn't find anyway of getting in; I tried a couple of cameras and a couple of phones as well as my PC and a so-called "multi-format" card reader; so I formatted it and now have a 4GB scratch card. Seems to work fine, and I don't feel guilty since a) they're dirt cheap and b) I tried.

Thanks for your thoughts.
Last edited by: VxFan on Mon 19 May 14 at 02:12
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New Fri 31 Jan 14 16:01 
 Memory Card - Zero
I'd keep an eye on your centrifuge, make sure it doesn't spin out of control.
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New Fri 31 Jan 14 16:35 
 Memory Card - spamcan61
I know I'm too late to the party here but I find the 'Diskinternals Linux Reader' useful for reading drives formatted in a variety of non Windows friendly formats on a Windows PC; personally I use it for copying TV files off my Vestel PVR onto my laptop.

link at bottom of page:-

www.diskinternals.com/?product=LR
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