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Old 01-20-2020, 05:11 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by NullNix View Post
Things have changed in this area recently. Older Kindles used a partition table with a single FAT32-formatted partition: at least some newer ones (definitely the Oasis 3) eschew the partition table and just export the entire raw device as a FAT32 filesystem. How (and if) you need to teach your computer about this depends on the OS you're running.
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Originally Posted by ilovejedd View Post
You sure about this? I've received USB dumps of the Oasis 3 in attempts to extract factory firmware and the dump doesn't include the system.
Yes, at least for the KOA2, but that is probably irrelevant.

Many non-kindle readers have been doing that for many years, including when exporting partitioned external SD cards.

Since we are having so much fun prematurely speculating, it could be that some previous owner "formatted" or deformatted the drive.
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