I have a 4 gig San Disk secure digital card and it’s been something of a headache.
First, my brand new 2006 computer with a built in SD (and others) card reader won’t format, read or write to the card. It recognized it as a 4GB card, but would fail when trying to do anything with it. My 2006 computer has, seriously, 1999 drivers for the SD slot and I haven’t, as yet, found an update.
My PDA will format it use it. So I had to ActiveSync 3.72 gig of mp3’s to the card (do you have any idea how long that takes???)
So last night, I decided to take off some Led Zepplin and put on some Kraftwerk. Deleting the Zepplen was no problem. After loading some of the Kraftwerk, the computer reset. It didn’t even give me the blue screen of death, like it’s set to.
When I tried to use the PDA, it wanted to format the chip. I said no. The card doesn’t work now. The computer thinks it’s a 128 meg card, but still won’t format it. The PDA won’t read it and if I try to reformat it, it either gives me an error 64, 21 or 2 depending on it’s mood.
I have a program called SDfixcapacity that I used when I accidentally set the card to 1 gig by formating it FAT insted of FAT32 by putting it in my camera to see if it would work. It thinks it a 128 meg card too. Ditto San Disk’s Recover Pro, although it can find the all the music (in 22000+ little bitty mp3 segments). I can click on them and hear a 1 second or so snippet of a song. So the data structure is still intack, it’s the file structure.
Does anyone out there have any idea how to convice the computer (XP) or the PDA (PocketPC 2003) to recognioze the card size and format it. Or did my car balk so badly at “Metal auf Metal” that it commited suicide?