internal card reader issue

[tamgunner]

hi guys i have a hp system with windows xp and its have a card reader at the front which came on the pc but i cannot get it to read a 8gb sdhc card? also tried it on my mates whos pc is alot newer than mine and its a compaq with windows 7 and it doesnt read it there either but the card works fine on the digital camera.

[rg66]

Older card readers won't read SDHC. Strange the Win7 PC won't read it though.

[tamgunner]

Older card readers won't read SDHC. Strange the Win7 PC won't read it though.

cheers m8 didnt know that i thought it might have something to do with it being 8gb.

[rg66]

I have an older card reader that won't read SDHC either, it only reads up to 2GB non SDHC.

[ascomp1]

Maybe your card are low quality brand.

[Keithuk]

Well my laptop is old so it doesn't have a SD card slot neither does my desktop. I bought a USB SD card reader and it read all my 2GB SD, 4GB SDHC and 8GB SDHC. Windows will format in FAT32 for your Wii.

I bought a cheap one of fleabay ?2.50 it lasted a week they sent me a new on and that was getting iffi after 4 months. I bought a more expensive one from Maplin's ?9.99 and that has worked everytime for the last 8 months.

You get what you pay for so Google them.

[lagerland]

Have a check it hasnt got a little slide switch on it m8 its for write protection and you wont see it if switched on.................

[Keithuk]

Yes there are switches on SD cards but it should still show in Windows.

[zer01]

Hi mate. Older card readers won't read anything bigger than 2gb cards. There isn't to my knowledge any patches/fixes for this (I've tried). I'm afraid you'll have to go for a new external card reader - unless you have a newish digital camera (for example) that reads SDHC cards, it would just be a case of connecting this to your pc and using it as your card reader.