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I'm a geek, a gamer, a dad and an IT Professional. I have a full rack home lab, size 15 feet, an epic beard and Asperger's. I'm a bit of a Cypherpunk, who believes information wants to be free and the Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
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Mediatek tablet ... and definitely a Micro SD slot 
far too small for anything else.
I can't even see the edge of the card, so seems to have gone straight over the top of the contacts!
I guess opening it up is only way to extract ... there are two small screws on the edge but assume the rest is held down with plastic lugs/slots? Has anyone opened a tablet?
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UPDATE: Managed to gently lever the edge up enough and gave device a little shake ... SD card fell out 
Seems the card went in between the card holder and the plastic lid. SD card slides in by tipping it at a slight angle, similar to how I put the SIM cards in, but the SD card only goes half way before the 'shark fin' tab hits the connectors side ... is that normal for tablets or should it go right in and 'click' into place?
I'm used to SD cards sort of clicking into a spring loaded connector, but maybe some phones and tablets just accept them as a slide-in like a SIM card? I know it's not working because I cannot mount the card yet.
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Reformatted SD card as exFAT, and tried that ... no go. Looked a little uneven in the slot so looked with strong light and one pin appeared a little lower than the others. Used a very fine pin to lever it up a little and voila, we have lift off 
Card mounts properly, and can now transfer files back and forth.
Fingers crossed all will still be well when I replace SD with a larger capacity.
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Involuntary autocorrect in operation on mobile device. Apologies in advance.
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