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Thread ID: 83605	2007-10-06 22:13:00	SD card won't work in vista 64.......	powerover (12121)	Press F1

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598814	2007-10-06 22:13:00	Hey guys, i have got this SD card problem on my laptop with vista 64 installed . what happened is that last night i was partying with my friends and taking photo with my phone(nokia 6265), which store the photos on the mini SD card . after about 3 photos it stopped working, it keep telling me that "operation failed . . . . . ", i checked the memory on the card, still more than 700 MB left, but it just won't let my phone save to photos on it anymore . so this morning i put it in a mini to standard SD card adapter and put the whole thing in my card slot on my laptop . it recognize it as SD storage, but as soon as i double left click, or right click it, it freezes . :badpc: so i borrow my mate's SD card and stick it in, it recognize it as well but when i click on it the same thing happened . just to prove the SD card reader on my laptop is working properly i boot my laptop into XP, this time, XP can read my friend's SD card with no problem, and it recognize my SD card as well but as soon as i click on it the same thing happened as in Vista . so i leave the card inside the slot and reboot my laptop, into Vista . it won't even recognizes the SD card in the slot anymore . i went into the Device Manager, and find out that the "SD host adapter could not start", i though i have to update the driver so i use the option to search on the net, but about 2 minutes later vista tells me that i have the latest driver installed . so i uninstalled the device, reinstalled the device and driver again and only to find that "this device is working properly" but i still can't get into it . . . . . :badpc: just to top it up, after reinstalling the device and the driver, it recognize my SD card as "removable hard disc" . . . . . and as soon as i put it in the slot, it will freeze "windows explorer" if i am in it . if i click on safely remove hardware it shows up as SD card, and of cause it won't let me safely remove it, it will just freeze on me . . . . . . . . :badpc: i put the SD card back in my phone and strangely, my phone can read photos out of the card but just can't save photos into it . so just to make things clearer here is the sum up of the situation: under Vista 64: my SD card won't work my mate's SD card won't work under XP: my SD card won't work my mate's SD card works fine under my phone(nokia 6265): my SD card won't let my phone save photos on it, but it will let my phone read photos out of it . . . . . . . :dogeye: so could you guys help me and find out what is wrong for me please? is it my SD card? or is it my SD card reading slot is stuffed? or is it the driver that is driving the SD card slot?? thank you for your patient, just any sort of help will be greatly appreciated . cheers!:thumbs:	powerover (12121)
598815	2007-10-06 22:26:00	Well if Vista cant read I would say Vista doesnt know what it is, or something has corrupted the card. Or Vista doesnt know, what its been formatted in. Altho, I doubt this would happen to your card and your mates card. Its most probably stuffed. Since XP and Vista cant read it (your card). Put it in XP and right mouse / format it in FAT. And if you cant write to it, it may have a write protect switch on it. That needs to be switched over. To write to it. Does your card appear in XP, as a removable disk? In my computer? If it does, format it. I've had a similar thing happen to 2 sd cards here. One minute it works fine in the digi cam, next minute, when you turn the cam on the stupid thing wont turn on, because of the card. Take the card out it comes on. All I do is, put it in a printer slot and format it.	Speedy Gonzales (78)
598816	2007-10-06 22:42:00	Put it in XP and right mouse / format it in FAT . And if you cant write to it, it may have a write protect switch on it . That needs to be switched over . To write to it . Does your card appear in XP, as a removable disk? In my computer? If it does, format it . thank you so much for your help . in XP it show up as SD card in "my computer" but as soon as i right click it it freezes . . . . . so i can't format it . . . . but formatting it in some other device is a good idea . . i will try it with my mate's camera . does Mini SD card have write protect switches as well? i can't find any physical switch(like those ones on standard SD card) on the card . or it is switched on and off using any other way? thanks . :thumbs:	powerover (12121)
598817	2007-10-06 22:52:00	It could be that the card you're putting in the card reader is too small?? If its a mini SD card . Someone I know had a small memory card for a digital cam, she put it in the reader on the laptop, it got stuck! I had to put a toothpick in the slot, to lift it above the catch bit, so it came out . What if you put the card in the camera, and connect the camera?? Can you connect the camera with a USB cable? I would try this, if u can, and see if Vista and XP detect it and let you open it or format it, without freezing the system . Not too sure if mini SD cards have write-protect switches on them, or not .	Speedy Gonzales (78)
598818	2007-10-06 23:54:00	It could be that the card you're putting in the card reader is too small?? If its a mini SD card . Someone I know had a small memory card for a digital cam, she put it in the reader on the laptop, it got stuck! thanks for the reply . it is a Mini SD card and before i put it in the card reader on my laptop i have to put it in a mini SD card to stander SD card adapter, so it is the same size as the standard SD card . i will try using the USB cable to connect to the camera and format the card . thanks for your help!! :thumbs:	powerover (12121)
598819	2007-10-07 00:04:00	My guess would be if it will not format from the camera or XP then the card is dead . Vista probably didn't like your mates SD card as it was still recovering from the error from your faulty card . That is unless you did a reboot between trying your card and your mates .	berryb (99)
598820	2007-10-07 01:59:00	Vista probably didn't like your mates SD card as it was still recovering from the error from your faulty card. ummm good point actually.... i didn't reboot between trying each cards so i guess that might be why it didn't like my mate's card.... cheers:thumbs:	powerover (12121)
598821	2007-10-07 03:06:00	umm . . . . under XP i tried to format the card but it said that "windows xp was unable to format the . . . . . " :dogeye: :badpc: i also tried my mate's camera, it recognize the card but is taking infinitely long time to read the card, and i finally lost my patient waiting . . . . . :badpc: so what should i do now? i guess i am better off getting a new card?:dogeye: cheers	powerover (12121)
598822	2007-10-07 03:09:00	i guess i am better off getting a new card?:dogeye: cheers Yup, it sounds dead . When you kept taking it out, did you eject it? Use the safely remove hardware icon on the taskbar if it appeared?? Not a good idea pulling it out, without doing the above, it would have corrupted it somehow .	Speedy Gonzales (78)
598823	2007-10-07 04:38:00	Might corrupt data but *shouldn't* break the card	Agent_24 (57)
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