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card reader on Toshiba laptop throwing on error on me
Toshiba a305-6905 3gb laptop. 1.5 years.
All of a sudden I stick a Sony memory stick and a I tried a filled sd card to ensure it wasn't one of the either and regardless I get an error. Shows up when inserted on my computer but no pics will be displayed because it says the media card needs to be formatted first even with pics on it. So I played along and let the computer tried to format the card and it computer is unable to format. Storage on portable media is not in the lock position. Pics will show up on camera and printer so I know this is computer related only. Shows up on device manager as Ricoh memory stick, says it has the latest driver. I will go for a usb card reader if necessary. Before spending $20 anyone have any ideas or suggestions? I am the administrator. Just started just like that but I could be wrong, don't remember at the time, but I think it started happening after the computer awoke from sleep mode. I use Vista 32 bit. Avast and Malwarebytes installed along with CC cleaner programs. Defender is off. Help? I would be willing to call you or vice versa to see if you are familiar with the repair trying to fix over the phone. thanks, Bruce or is this something where I have the wrong sharing settings-what a pain- xp was better. I am not a computer guru obviously so please make it is simple to understand. |
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card reader on Toshiba laptop throwing on error on me
"iluv my kitties and family" wrote:
Toshiba a305-6905 3gb laptop. 1.5 years. All of a sudden I stick a Sony memory stick and a I tried a filled sd card to ensure it wasn't one of the either and regardless I get an error. Shows up when inserted on my computer but no pics will be displayed because it says the media card needs to be formatted first even with pics on it. The card reader built in to my Toshiba Satellite laptop never worked. It didn't give any indication of error, it let me copy pictures from the card to the hard drive. When I displayed them, they were garbled. Spending a few bucks on a USB card reader solved the problem. That's what I'd recommend for you: put out a few bucks (these things are cheap), get a USB reader and give up on the builtin one. -- Tim Slattery http://members.cox.net/slatteryt |
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card reader on Toshiba laptop throwing on error on me
$20 at Wal-Fraud plus it is a 24 number of readers ? Didn't know there were
that many removable media!I suppose. Money is money. Am hoping I hit a wrong setting for something. "Tim Slattery" wrote in message ... "iluv my kitties and family" wrote: Toshiba a305-6905 3gb laptop. 1.5 years. All of a sudden I stick a Sony memory stick and a I tried a filled sd card to ensure it wasn't one of the either and regardless I get an error. Shows up when inserted on my computer but no pics will be displayed because it says the media card needs to be formatted first even with pics on it. The card reader built in to my Toshiba Satellite laptop never worked. It didn't give any indication of error, it let me copy pictures from the card to the hard drive. When I displayed them, they were garbled. Spending a few bucks on a USB card reader solved the problem. That's what I'd recommend for you: put out a few bucks (these things are cheap), get a USB reader and give up on the builtin one. -- Tim Slattery http://members.cox.net/slatteryt |