Vista does not recognize SD cards greater than 1 gig in size.
Vista Ultimate and Home Premium with SP1 does NOT recognize SD cards greater than 1 gig in size. It recognizes 1 gig SD's, but anything higher, it requires that I format it down to 1 gig. This is 100% repeatable by me and apparently a few thousand other people, according to a Google search on "vista sd problem". Applying "hot fixes" fixes nothing. I want my money back - going back to XP Pro.
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Hi,
If this is the case, we recommend to contact hardware manufaturer to see if any latest drive for Windows Vista is available. Generally, if the manufacturers of devices don’t provide drivers designed for Windows Vista, we can’t solve the problem just in Windows side. Incompatible hardware, especially basic devices like motherboard, may cause system crash or other serious problems in the future.
To solve the problem solidly, please contact the manufacturer and confirm whether updated driver for Windows Vista is in the works.Thank you for understanding, and I hope the problem will be fixed soon!
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Hi,
Please refer to following KB article, maybe it is helpful:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936825/
Also, run msconfig command and go to boot->advanced options to ensure the "Max memory" is unchecked. Besides, contact manufacturer to see if any update of SD dirve for Windows Vista at their side.
Hope it helps.
- Hotfix 936825 just tells me I don't need it since I have SP1 installed.
Also tried hotfix KB934428 which tells me I don't have enough space - 1 terrabytes free and 4 gigs ram is not enough space?
Max Memory was never checked on.
Everything works fine on XP Pro. Vista just sucks.
Equipments used: Toshiba Satellite laptop with built-in card reader, two desktops built with ECS EliteGroup 651C-M and ECS EliteGroup GF7100PVT-M3 motherboards. All three wants to "help" me format my 2 gig SD card down to 958 megs. The laptop and ECS 651C-M works fine with XP Pro. GF7100PVT is a new built for Vista only and never worked right from day one in regards to SD cards. Hi,
If this is the case, we recommend to contact hardware manufaturer to see if any latest drive for Windows Vista is available. Generally, if the manufacturers of devices don’t provide drivers designed for Windows Vista, we can’t solve the problem just in Windows side. Incompatible hardware, especially basic devices like motherboard, may cause system crash or other serious problems in the future.
To solve the problem solidly, please contact the manufacturer and confirm whether updated driver for Windows Vista is in the works.Thank you for understanding, and I hope the problem will be fixed soon!
I find this SD problem exists with Vista 64bit and also with XP 32 bit and in addition there are reliability problems with USB memory sticks above 1GB.
How I get round the SD recognition problem is to use a USB card adaptor and both my Vista laptop (2008 vintage) and XP computer (2008 vintage) read and write to my camera 4GB SD card.
Vista & XP reliability on USB memory sticks above 1 GB is a different matter. If you try to put 40MB video files on to a high capacity memory stick once you've transferd a certain number of files (related to the capacity of the stick) both Vista and XP start to remove the TOC from the file rendering the file usless.
A point of intrest to readers :- SONY had the same problem with their Mini - Disk system and to the best of my knowledge never resolved the issue before the system became redundant.
Now Microsoft has the brains of the world at their disposal but seem incapable of resolving the issues stated above, maybe it's time we got the old Atari out, at least it worked.
