Card Reader won't read 2Gb SD card

I also have the SD Card problem in Vista: failure to read a 2 gb card. My
external card reader is "mass storage compliant". It requires no software
installation of drivers to work in Windows 2K and XP. Booting into W2K on the
Vista PC shows that a clean W2K install, and no additional driver
installation, will result in a perfect performance from the 2Gb SD card.
Therefore, there is no motherboard bios issue involved.

For what it is worth: The Vista Driver file version is 6.0.6000.
vista.rtm.061101-2205. 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.sys and disk.sys. In XP, an additional driver file,
snapman.sys, is present.

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?



"jammiedodger80" wrote:

> Installed Vista yesterday, and the only thing I'm having trouble with is my
> card reader.
>
> It'll read all of my 128mb, 256mb, 512mb and 1gb SD cards no problem, but
> won't read my 2gb card. Instead, it gives the message "you need to format
> the disk in drive X: before you can use it. Do you want to format it?"
>
> Now, if say yes, it brings up the "format disk" box, but shows the capacity
> as being 969mb.
> However, if I put the same card reader and the same cardback in my Windows
> XP box, it reads it fine as being 2Gb.
>
> Have also tried it with another card reader borrowed from a friend, with the
> same result.
>
> Any ideas?

Embarrassed to report this, but I can read the SD card just fine in Vista if
I ignore my old habit of using a card reader, and instead, leave the card in
the camera and read it into Vista from there. Guess that Nikon knows how to
do it. They ought to tell Microsoft how they did it.

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? Seems like I
can. Can you install palm software onto the card in the Nikon? Will keep this
in mind.

So, if you want to read Palm SD cards in Vista, looks like you might need a
nice new Nikon SLR. Head down to accounting right now and get it authorized.
On the other hand, if you try this your company might never adopt Vista.
Maybe Nikon should be in the OS trade since their cameras have an OS that
works. Will we be able to download a new NikTix distro?

bigwater updating his last post.

"bigwater" wrote:

> I also have the SD Card problem in Vista: failure to read a 2 gb card. My
> external card reader is "mass storage compliant". It requires no software
> installation of drivers to work in Windows 2K and XP. Booting into W2K on the
> Vista PC shows that a clean W2K install, and no additional driver
> installation, will result in a perfect performance from the 2Gb SD card.
> Therefore, there is no motherboard bios issue involved.
>
> For what it is worth: The Vista Driver file version is 6.0.6000.
> vista.rtm.061101-2205. 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.sys and disk.sys. In XP, an additional driver file,
> snapman.sys, is present.
>
> 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?
>
>
>
> "jammiedodger80" wrote:
>
> > Installed Vista yesterday, and the only thing I'm having trouble with is my
> > card reader.
> >
> > It'll read all of my 128mb, 256mb, 512mb and 1gb SD cards no problem, but
> > won't read my 2gb card. Instead, it gives the message "you need to format
> > the disk in drive X: before you can use it. Do you want to format it?"
> >
> > Now, if say yes, it brings up the "format disk" box, but shows the capacity
> > as being 969mb.
> > However, if I put the same card reader and the same cardback in my Windows
> > XP box, it reads it fine as being 2Gb.
> >
> > Have also tried it with another card reader borrowed from a friend, with the
> > same result.
> >
> > Any ideas?