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Card Reader won't read 2Gb SD card
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
I've seen reports of this happening under XP on laptops and cured when
they issued a new BIOS update to deal with larger cards. Might be worth checking for VISTA specific BIOS updates for your machine. |
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Card Reader won't read 2Gb SD card
Hugh,
Thanks for the suggestion. Just tried that this morning, got the latest drivers for my board from the MSI website, but it hasn't made a difference. "Hugh Wyn Griffith" wrote: I've seen reports of this happening under XP on laptops and cured when they issued a new BIOS update to deal with larger cards. Might be worth checking for VISTA specific BIOS updates for your machine. |
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Card Reader won't read 2Gb SD card
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Jammiedodger80 wrote: got the latest drivers for my board from the*MSI website That's for the motherboard? Did it include any BIOS update? |
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Card Reader won't read 2Gb SD card
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jammiedodger80 writes 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? i have the same problems, i believe it to be a windows driver problem. both xp and vista refuse to read a 2gb sdcard via usb card reader but the same hardware in Linux can read it perfectly. -- deadite66 |
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Card Reader won't read 2Gb SD card
Check the driver for the card reader. I had the same problem - couldn't
format an SD card 1GB. My HP laptop had a 2001 vintage driver for the reader. Once I updated the driver everything worked fine. "deadite66" wrote: In article , jammiedodger80 writes 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? i have the same problems, i believe it to be a windows driver problem. both xp and vista refuse to read a 2gb sdcard via usb card reader but the same hardware in Linux can read it perfectly. -- deadite66 |
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Card Reader won't read 2Gb SD card
I'm having the same problem with my 1GB SD card. I was taking
pictures, then one day when I put the card in the card reader, it died. One of the pics looked corrupted and the whole card died within seconds. The card is unreadable on my card reader, my camera, and my printer card reader. |
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Card Reader won't read 2Gb SD card
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
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 24 Mar, 13:30, G4gir wrote:
Has anyone found a solution to getting the 2 or 4 Gb cards to be recognised inVISTAyet?. 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 yourcardreader? I'm using an IOGear GUH284R.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I have the same problem. Anyone found a solution yet? |