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Topic: Card reader?? |
Dale Gray
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Colorado, USA
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Posted 7 Aug 2010 12:24 pm |
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Bought a new sandisk card and formatted in a Samsung cell phone and plugged it into my card reader. The PC doesnt see it. Other cards work ok and this card is seen on other PC,s
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Jim Smith
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Midlothian, TX, USA
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Posted 8 Aug 2010 7:37 am
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Why did you format the card? I've never had to format one to use it in a phone, camera, or PC.
I did have a problem once with one card that all of a sudden stopped being read in my phone or my PC. I put it in my camera and formatted it, and from then on it worked everywhere. |
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Dale Gray
From:
Colorado, USA
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Posted 8 Aug 2010 11:45 am
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The cell phone formatted it.
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Jim Smith
From:
Midlothian, TX, USA
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Posted 8 Aug 2010 3:12 pm
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| Dale Gray wrote: |
| The cell phone formatted it. |
Did you tell it to, or did the phone do it automatically when you inserted the card? |
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Dale Gray
From:
Colorado, USA
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Posted 8 Aug 2010 6:01 pm
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When I installed the card, to format the card was the only option offered.
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Jim Smith
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Midlothian, TX, USA
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Posted 8 Aug 2010 8:25 pm
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Did you happen to buy this card on eBay? There are many people selling fake SanDisk cards on there.
The only phones I've used cards in are HTC Pocket PCs, so I don't know why your phone would try to format the card. I don't think HTC phones even have the option to format a card.
If you have a camera that this card will fit in, you might try to format it there, or reformat it in one of the other PCs that can read it.
Another thought is to make sure your card reader is plugged into a direct USB slot, and not into a USB hub. Those can cause a lot of read/write problems. |
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Dale Gray
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Colorado, USA
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Posted 9 Aug 2010 6:21 am
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I bought the card locally, and the reason the phone formatted it was to have folders for music, pictures, and video. Also I learned that not all pcs can read a card larger than 1 gig. Having said that, can all pcs see a external hard drive?
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Jim Smith
From:
Midlothian, TX, USA
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Posted 10 Aug 2010 8:03 pm
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A card doesn't need to be formatted to be able to create folders, and formatting it doesn't create folders either. You just create folders (directories) on the card just like you do on a PC's hard drive.
I guess it's possible that a very old PC might not be able to read cards larger than 1 GB. I have a 32 GB card in my phone and my PC reads it just fine.
Older PCs might not have USB ports, so they obviously can't read external USB drives. My PC doesn't have external SATA ports, so it can't read external SATA drives. |
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