Hi thanks for that, I returned SD Card to the shop in question and got a replacement, bought an SD card reader on the off chance that I had damaged my own as a result of all of this, but glad to say that at the moment my laptop's SD card reader seems undamaged, and I have managed to image the new SD...

Hi, I'm a newbie and I was trying to do a NOOBS setup on a brand new16GB SanDisk Ultra microSDHC UHS-1 Card by following the instructions on: http://www.raspberrypi.org/help/noobs-setup/ I downloaded and extracted the ‘NOOBS (offline and network install). I inserted the SD card in the SD card reader...