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SD Card without MBR or GPT: I need a "RAW" SD card (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Is it possible to buy RAW SD cards? I mean without a master boot record or partition table. I have been using WinHex to write zeros to all the memory addresses thereby wiping out the partition tables, but this is time consuming. Can I just buy them "blank"? Does anyone have a source?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Curious to ask what you're using this for.

Regarding buying raw cards, you'd want to buy from an industrial-facing outlet. Going closer to source is your best bet, so, buying from a reseller on Aliexpress or the like. You'll probably need to buy in volume though. The easier solution is probably just to use Diskpart to clean the disk, which takes seconds.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Tactical dot.

If i know stuff a little, a MBR and a basic partition table is the very minimum requirement to operate a storage device.