When sharing this post on his social media accounts, Jim prefixed the link with: 'Sometimes its cathartic to just blog about really basic, (probably?) obvious stuff'
Reading most of this advice for the first time, it is both interesting and validating to see many of the recommendations align with what I've already noticed in my own work and adapted to consider.
Even in isolation people gravitate towards the same ideas.
I love this tool. I use it not just for SD cards but for all sorts of portable storage.
It seems to fix things where Windows File Explorer's formatter and other tools fail. A simple tool that does a really good job. It has even fixed some partition weirdness I've needed to deal with.
While this tool saved my beef a couple of times, I found out that zeroing the device (partially or fully) with dd and partitioning it with gparted (the CLI tool) did also wonders.
I had a wonky HIKSemi USB flash drive, which turned out to be partitioned in a very unaligned way, and neither the flash nor the controller liked that much. Doing it manually and making sure it's aligned (which gparted does automatically) converted it to a very dependable drive.
I loaded it up to find myself presented with a completely broken visual appearance, screaming audio, and all sorts of hate content and other horrors. Absolutely terrible.
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