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| 700358 | 2008-08-25 23:25:00 | Hi, I have just bought a Kingston 4Gb compact flash card and my pc reports it size as 1.88Gb. Now I know windows reports drive sizes smaller than they actually are but I have lost over 2Gb. This card is actually the second as the first card also reported as 1.88Gb so I sent it back. Whats going on? Is 1.88Gb the correct size? Going to Europe for 5 weeks on Thursday so I need to get this sorted. Cheers |
78SS (13963) | ||
| 700359 | 2008-08-25 23:30:00 | Some card readers can only read so much, of a memory card (Not all of them can read 4GB+ cards) So it could be the card reader thats the prob or XP (if youre using XP) may need an update Whats the model/brand of this card reader?? If you've got one |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 700360 | 2008-08-25 23:34:00 | Model of card reader in pc is unknown, but my camera, a canon A70, also reports the size as 1.8Gb. I am using vista ultimate. | 78SS (13963) | ||
| 700361 | 2008-08-25 23:59:00 | Is that formated in FAT?, if so there is the reaso for the 2Gb limit....I would use computer manager and disk management to erase the partition and reformat using FAT32 to give you the full 4Gb | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 700362 | 2008-08-26 00:14:00 | I have reformatted the card with FAT32 in disk management and the card size is still reported as 1.88Gb in camera and card reader. | 78SS (13963) | ||
| 700363 | 2008-08-26 00:43:00 | Did you delete any partitions 1st?...no good reformatting if the partition is still 1.88Gb | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 700364 | 2008-08-26 00:46:00 | No, it was empty. Just reformatted with FAT32. | 78SS (13963) | ||
| 700365 | 2008-08-26 00:50:00 | Is that a Powershot A70? That model was released over 5 years ago and may not be able to fully utilise large capacity cards. | seltsam (13470) | ||
| 700366 | 2008-08-26 01:00:00 | But it should show up in Vista with the correct size. I think I will take it to a camera shop and see it works OK for them. |
78SS (13963) | ||
| 700367 | 2008-08-26 01:04:00 | No, it was empty. Just reformatted with FAT32. ???- Empty?....I dont think you removed the partition, empty or not....use windows disk manager, right click on the drive, does it have the option to delete partition....on the properties option, what size does it show, does it show unused space? |
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