My Laptop won't format/read bigger than 1gig sd :(

Guru · 30 Jan 2008 at 21:45

Can anyone help me get this damn built in SD card reader to read my 4gig card?

Its a winbond reader as far as I know, built into the front of my HP Compaq nx7000.

Cheers,

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rG-tom · 1 Feb 2008 at 17:26

no such thing as a 4gb SD card therefore your machine won't read it.....anything above 2gb is an SD HC which needs a different reader i'm afraid mate

6thElement · 3 Feb 2008 at 10:55

My laptop can't cope with 2GB SD cards

Guru · 3 Feb 2008 at 19:01

I wonder if I could buy an new internal sd hc reader and swap it with the pooh I have in there at the moment and have it work?

I don't know if the plugs to the mobo would be the same tho

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Perfect_Chaos · 4 Feb 2008 at 09:58

Guru said:
I wonder if I could buy an new internal sd hc reader and swap it with the pooh I have in there at the moment and have it work?

I don't know if the plugs to the mobo would be the same tho

G

Why not just buy a usb reader?

Guru · 4 Feb 2008 at 12:08

Perfect_Chaos said:
Why not just buy a usb reader?

I've already got one, it's just REALLY annoying that my built in one isn't working lol

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Mr.Clark · 4 Feb 2008 at 21:13

rG-tom said:
no such thing as a 4gb SD card therefore your machine won't read it.....anything above 2gb is an SD HC which needs a different reader i'm afraid mate

Er... not true.

My XDA-Exec quite cheerfully took a 4GB SD card that wasn't HC.

That said, many older SD-card readers won't read them, but that's because of the reader, not the card.

surfsquid · 4 Feb 2008 at 23:45

There are 4GB non-hc cards, however not all devices will support them as its outside of the SD spec. atleast this is what I am lead to believe