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Card Reader won't read 2Gb SD card
same problem here. Card & reader work just fine in laptop running
XP. Tried 2 different card readers in Vista, so far no luck at all with 2GB sd cards. |
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Card Reader won't read 2Gb SD card
Were you using an external USB card reader in either or both systems?
"Mark" wrote in message ps.com... same problem here. Card & reader work just fine in laptop running XP. Tried 2 different card readers in Vista, so far no luck at all with 2GB sd cards. |
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Card Reader won't read 2Gb SD card
Seem to be a problem for many people, boys from Microsoft should fix
it... G4gir napsal: Has anyone found a solution to getting the 2 or 4 Gb cards to be recognised in VISTA yet?. I have a Lexar USB 2.0 multicard reader an I get the same problems of you must format before use and only 1Gb available, however in XP no problem Thanks Ian "Matt" wrote: On Mar 21, 3:24 pm, "Matt Sciba" wrote: I'm having the same problem with my 1GBSDcard. I was taking pictures, then one day when I put thecardin thecardreader, it died. One of the pics looked corrupted and the wholecarddied within seconds. Thecardis unreadable on mycardreader, my camera, and my printercardreader. Btw, What is the brand and model of your card reader? I'm using an IOGear GUH284R. |
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Card Reader won't read 2Gb SD card
On 29 Apr, 20:08, Martin Milichovský wrote:
Seem to be a problem for many people, boys from Microsoft should fix it... I've got the same problem. Can't read 2GB SD cards, but I can read lower capacity ones. Tried 3 different brands of SD cards (Kingston, Sandisk regular and Sandisk Extreme III). Have 2 different card readers. Everything works fine on my XP laptop. I believe this to be a Vista driver issue. |
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Card Reader won't read 2Gb SD card
On 27 Apr, 22:24, "JW" wrote:
Were you using an external USB card reader in either or both systems? Yeah, have an external card reader that works fine in my XP laptop. It fails to work with Vista. It's a Lexar card reader, tried different brands of SD cards too. Also have an internal card reader that doesn't work. I can read lower capacity cards just fine on Vista with both readers. |
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Card Reader won't read 2Gb SD card
I also have the SD Card problem in Vista: failure to read a 2 gb card. My
external card reader is "mass storage compliant". It requires no software installation of drivers to work in Windows 2K and XP. Booting into W2K on the Vista PC shows that a clean W2K install, and no additional driver installation, will result in a perfect performance from the 2Gb SD card. Therefore, there is no motherboard bios issue involved. For what it is worth: The Vista Driver file version is 6.0.6000. vista.rtm.061101-2205. In comparing the Vista drivers to the ones that work in XP, I discovered that in Vista, only two driver files are associated with my card reader: partmgr.sys and disk.sys. In XP, an additional driver file, snapman.sys, is present. Guess all the SD card users who have all those new digital cameras will have to wait for someone on the Vista team to take an interest in all the millions of folks who will want to use all the Vista features to see their pictures. Waiting for SP1 anyone? "jammiedodger80" wrote: Installed Vista yesterday, and the only thing I'm having trouble with is my card reader. It'll read all of my 128mb, 256mb, 512mb and 1gb SD cards no problem, but won't read my 2gb card. Instead, it gives the message "you need to format the disk in drive X: before you can use it. Do you want to format it?" Now, if say yes, it brings up the "format disk" box, but shows the capacity as being 969mb. However, if I put the same card reader and the same cardback in my Windows XP box, it reads it fine as being 2Gb. Have also tried it with another card reader borrowed from a friend, with the same result. Any ideas? |
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Card Reader won't read 2Gb SD card
Embarrassed to report this, but I can read the SD card just fine in Vista if
I ignore my old habit of using a card reader, and instead, leave the card in the camera and read it into Vista from there. Guess that Nikon knows how to do it. They ought to tell Microsoft how they did it. Next question: can you put an SD card from the palm into the camera and read it? Seems like I can. Can you write to the card in the camera? Seems like I can. Can you install palm software onto the card in the Nikon? Will keep this in mind. So, if you want to read Palm SD cards in Vista, looks like you might need a nice new Nikon SLR. Head down to accounting right now and get it authorized. On the other hand, if you try this your company might never adopt Vista. Maybe Nikon should be in the OS trade since their cameras have an OS that works. Will we be able to download a new NikTix distro? bigwater updating his last post. "bigwater" wrote: I also have the SD Card problem in Vista: failure to read a 2 gb card. My external card reader is "mass storage compliant". It requires no software installation of drivers to work in Windows 2K and XP. Booting into W2K on the Vista PC shows that a clean W2K install, and no additional driver installation, will result in a perfect performance from the 2Gb SD card. Therefore, there is no motherboard bios issue involved. For what it is worth: The Vista Driver file version is 6.0.6000. vista.rtm.061101-2205. In comparing the Vista drivers to the ones that work in XP, I discovered that in Vista, only two driver files are associated with my card reader: partmgr.sys and disk.sys. In XP, an additional driver file, snapman.sys, is present. Guess all the SD card users who have all those new digital cameras will have to wait for someone on the Vista team to take an interest in all the millions of folks who will want to use all the Vista features to see their pictures. Waiting for SP1 anyone? "jammiedodger80" wrote: Installed Vista yesterday, and the only thing I'm having trouble with is my card reader. It'll read all of my 128mb, 256mb, 512mb and 1gb SD cards no problem, but won't read my 2gb card. Instead, it gives the message "you need to format the disk in drive X: before you can use it. Do you want to format it?" Now, if say yes, it brings up the "format disk" box, but shows the capacity as being 969mb. However, if I put the same card reader and the same cardback in my Windows XP box, it reads it fine as being 2Gb. Have also tried it with another card reader borrowed from a friend, with the same result. Any ideas? |
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Card Reader won't read 2Gb SD card
Just came across a reference to this:
Availability of the Windows Vista Secure Digital (SD) hotfix rollup package http://support.microsoft.com/default...b/933847/en-us However there's a not inside that KB article indicating that it's been replaced by: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936825/ which includes download instructions for 32 bit and for 64 bit versions. I found the first KB in a thread Google turned up at: http://www.austech.info/showthread.php?p=1145756 which also indicated that having ReadyBoost set to ON might affect things. Good luck! |
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Card Reader won't read 2Gb SD card
I have that update. It did not change the behavior of Vista not recognizing
2Gb SD card. I have the workaround of using the camera as an SD card reader and it works fine, even on cards not formatted in the camera. I can read, write, create folders, etc. on the card in the camera, just not on the card in the card reader. "huwyngr" wrote: Just came across a reference to this: Availability of the Windows Vista Secure Digital (SD) hotfix rollup package http://support.microsoft.com/default...b/933847/en-us However there's a not inside that KB article indicating that it's been replaced by: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936825/ which includes download instructions for 32 bit and for 64 bit versions. I found the first KB in a thread Google turned up at: http://www.austech.info/showthread.php?p=1145756 which also indicated that having ReadyBoost set to ON might affect things. Good luck! |