You can move pictures to an SD card using a PC, Mac, or Android phone, as long as you have the right card and equipment.
To format a hard drive before you start using it in Windows, use the Disk Management utility; on a Mac, use Disk Utility.
It doesn't take long to check your memory card, but you're better off learning how to spot a fake to begin with.
Still, quite a few popular devices use SD cards as their OS drives. The Raspberry Pi, for example, uses a micro SD card as its OS drive by default. There are also plenty of handhe ...