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?