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SD with boot software appears empty

Droidified

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Feb 25, 2013
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Hi everyone,

Before anything, please don't laugh at my stupidity. I'm trying to learn.

I bought a tablet from China and since it was twitchy, the seller sent me an mini-sd card that when I use it, it boots the program to what seems to be a better functioning version of the OS. Now I want to copy this SD card but it appears empty. Disk Management shows 420 MB of "unallocated space" which I can't look into but I'm guessing that's the sweet partition I need.

So the questions are, what in the world is that partition? how is it hidden? why is it hidden? how can I have access to it? and how can I copy it? Alternatively, how can I make myself a recovery sd like this one?
 

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