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Thread ID: 77857	2007-03-25 10:29:00	SD Card "losing" capacity	somebody (208)	Press F1

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535762	2007-03-25 10:29:00	In the last week or so, my (relatively new) SD card has been losing capacity. What i mean is: It is a 2GB card, so has 1.81gb of usable space. Earlier in the week, I took it out of my cardreader, and put it back in. It then registered 1.68GB (without needing to be reformatted - seemed weird, but I was too busy to worry about it). I reformatted it, thinking it would solve the problem - it didn't. Looked in the Disk Management, and it reports the card as being a 1.68GB card... What happened today was even weirder: I took it out of my cardreader, put it into my digital camera. Used the format function on that to format the card. Put it back into my PC - it now showed 1.39GB. I have tried reformatting, with no luck. So... any ideas as to what's causing this? If it helps, I've been keeping it in my laptop's cardreader full-time as Readyboost cache.	somebody (208)
535763	2007-03-25 11:09:00	Maybe the card's read-write cycles are being used up. I mean I can only imagine how much a comp/laptop might need to access RAM. The card might not be able to handle so many cycles maybe.	beeswax34 (63)
535764	2007-03-25 20:10:00	Umm... it's just over a month old though.... Since posting, I now can't do anything to the drive - can't format it either - time to send it back.	somebody (208)
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