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Verifying SD Cards

Started by rickman May 3, 2016
On Wed, 11 May 2016 12:08:31 -0700
Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote:

> Try cleaning the contacts on the microSD cards with an eraser. I find > that helps with adapters sometimes. I don't know a way to clean the > contacts inside the adapters. Maybe I could do that by busting the > adapter open. I might try that sometime. I have lots of them that > came with cards, and they're cheap enough anyway.
Get a bit of tape recorder head cleaning tape and wrap it around a micro-SD card.
On 11/05/2016 19:58, rickman wrote:
> So far the card seems fine. But oddly enough I can't get the Samsung > microSD to SD card adapter to work in my PC.
I recommend the Rocketek USB3 SDCX/UHS-1 card reader, it has 2 micro SD and 2 full size SD slots, and appears as two drives. So you don't have to mess around with adaptors for micro SD cards, and its great for copying from one card to another a maximum speed. ---druck
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