Windows vista wont read my sd card

I appreciate any help that you'd be willing to offer! Thank you for using Microsoft Answers forum. This error code occurs only if you used the Safe Removal application to prepare the device for removal, or pressed a physical eject button. Here are a few options you can try. Open the Device Manager. Place select the "Optimize for Quick Removal" box.

If the "Optimize for Performance" is selected, it can cause the error you're seeing. You may need to visit the device manufacturer's website to find newer ones.. Open Device Manager, then uninstall the card reader devices, then restart the computer and let Windows re-recognize them and reinstall them.

Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. It looks like your problem is similar, but differs from the original question. Please start your own question and provide the details of your problem so that we can help you further. If more than one card cannot be read, then the USB card reader may be defective and unable to read SD cards. With some card readers, the SD card may have to be pressed in a little harder. Do not force the SD card into the slot, but try pressing in a little more than you normally would to make sure it is firmly inserted into the slot.

After inserting the SD card into your card reader, if there's no drive letter in My Computer to access the SD card, the computer may be low on virtual memory. To resolve this issue, close all open programs and allow your computer to idle for a few minutes.

Plug in the SD card again and see if the drive letter appears. Also, if your computer has Windows Vista , you may need to download and install a patch to fix a known bug relating to issues with reading SD cards in Windows Vista. Many SD cards have a feature called write-protection toggled on and off by a switch on the left side of the SD card. With write-protection enabled, files cannot be modified.

If your SD card has a write-protection switch, make sure it's disabled, or in the opposite direction that points to "LOCK" on the card. Then you can try using the SD card again and see if this fixes the issue.

With some card readers, the card is formatted much like how a disk drive is formatted when first used in a computer. Hope the double boot suggestion was helpful. And there will be a service pack 1. For what it is worth: The Vista Driver file version is 6. 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.

In XP, an additional driver file, snapman. 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? I guess you should count your blessings that it does ask before doing it! I don't have any SD cards so I can't even try to see if it happens to me or not. You might consider asking in the Photographic forums attached to www. They are invaluable sources of information on photographic matters.

Next question: can you put an SD card from the palm into the camera and read it? Seems like I can. Can you write to the card in the camera? Can you install palm software onto the card in the Nikon? Will keep this in mind. Head down to accounting right now and get it authorized. On the other hand, if you try this your company might never adopt Vista. Will we be able to download a new NikTix distro? Good luck! Note that I've posted to someone else a reference to a MS Hotfix for SD Card problems so you may want to follow that up -- there is a file you can download from Microsoft although I won't say it will fix your particular problem at least it shows MS knows about SD problems.

Here's the gist of it: I haven't found a solution yet either - though I can try using my camera as the card reader. I do have 2 generic card readers, both of which work fine with XP and Windows Server, without requiring any drivers etc.

I also tried the SD hotfix, didn't change behaviour on my PC at all. There's a known problem with earlier versions of one Toshiba laptop group for which Toshiba say there is no solution except to use an external card reader.

Please go back to the first message in the discussion and post the message to the original poster. EggHeadCafe -.

SD cards 2GB and larger are a somewhat different format, many card readers need firmware upgrades or a replacement card reader to accept 2GB and larger cards. Change the value from 16 Decimal to 1. It worked fine for me I hope it can work for you guys too. As you said, I guess this solution applies only to card readers made by Texas Instruments. Best Regards. It keeps me "on the jazz! Card Reader won't read 2Gb SD card. Reply to author. Report message as abuse. Show original message.

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Installed Vista yesterday, and the only thing I'm having trouble with is my card reader. Hugh Wyn Griffith. 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.

Hugh, Thanks for the suggestion. Ed discussions. Check the driver for the card reader. Step 3. Step 4. Click "Add" and select a drive letter, then click "OK". Your SD card would appear in the File Explorer along with local disks. A faulty, incorrect, or outdated card reader driver is the main reason for the SD card not detected on Windows Therefore, check if the drivers are in good health. Step 1. Right-click on the SD card and select "Properties", and under the " Driver" tab, click on "Update driver".

You can proceed with "Search automatically for updated driver software". If the issue persists, then follow the below method. Follow the below steps to uninstall the Universal Serial Bus controllers driver. Type devmgmt. Right-click on the drivers and select "Uninstall".

Click on OK on Confirm device uninstall prompt. Open "Control Panel" as instructed in the first method, and select "Troubleshooting". Expand the category "Memory Technology Devices". Double-click the card reader to open, like Realtek Card Reader Driver. On the pop-up windows, click "Driver" and then click "Disable Device". Step 5. Double-click the card reader again to open the "Properties" windows. Click "Enable Device" to re-enable the device. If all of the above methods above fail to make the computer read the SD card, you should now prepare for the worst that this memory card has developed bad sectors on it, which may cause corruption.

There is a piece of easy-to-use yet powerful corrupted sd card repair tool that will help you fix damaged SD card. Users can take advantage of its check partition feature to repair a corrupted SD card so that the computer can read the card again.

When you perform the formatting of the SD card on your phone, it is very likely that something will go wrong and the formatting fails. Then, the file system of your SD card is corrupted and it won't be detected and show up on your computer.