SD card

windowsfree said:

all cards. Tried reinstalling drivers, had to manually install. Device Manager looks ok, just wont read it.

Probably will scrap the Win 7 and perhaps go back to dual booting XP and Linux.
Thanks for all the suggestions.

Is this computer with Windows 7 new? If it is, and this isn't working, then sounds like it needs servicing.

If it's older, well, you might try a reinstall of 7.

gladson1976 said:

motc7 said:

windowsfree said:

all cards. Tried reinstalling drivers, had to manually install. Device Manager looks ok, just wont read it.

Probably will scrap the Win 7 and perhaps go back to dual booting XP and Linux.
Thanks for all the suggestions.

Is this computer with Windows 7 new? If it is, and this isn't working, then sounds like it needs servicing.

If it's older, well, you might try a reinstall of 7.

The same laptop has Ubuntu as dual boot and the card works in it

ahh, sorry I missed that.

So it works on the same computer with different OS but with Win 7 and same hardware it doesn't.

You might have a point. Check file system. If it's FAT32, format to NTFS standard allocation and then try again.

If not, then format that partition and reinstall 7.

I am gonna wait for Ubuntu 10.04 and wipe HD, reinstall XP and Linux and go on living life as I have. I appreciate all your input. Windows 7 at this point has no advantage for me to continue trying to use it. I have that Network Printer concern with it and well I realize I have older hardware and older OS's but it all works the way I need it to without intervention for the most part. Thanks again.

windowsfree said:

I am gonna wait for Ubuntu 10.04 and wipe HD, reinstall XP and Linux and go on living life as I have. I appreciate all your input. Windows 7 at this point has no advantage for me to continue trying to use it. I have that Network Printer concern with it and well I realize I have older hardware and older OS's but it all works the way I need it to without intervention for the most part. Thanks again.

you do what you feel is necessary.

However, I do want to caution you about the philosophy of "It works the way I need it without intervention." That works for a time, but just don't fall into the trap of not doing anything and then when things stop working due to backwards compatibility limitations, and those limitations are coming, you find yourself in a bigger fix than a printer not working and an SD card not reading.

The only reason I bought Win 7 is the place I work will begin supporting that in June and I wanted to become familiar with it. so for me at this time, I can go back to what I know works for now. Heck I still have an IDE hard drive in my Desktop.


Thank you.

motc7 said:

windowsfree said:

I am gonna wait for Ubuntu 10.04 and wipe HD, reinstall XP and Linux and go on living life as I have. I appreciate all your input. Windows 7 at this point has no advantage for me to continue trying to use it. I have that Network Printer concern with it and well I realize I have older hardware and older OS's but it all works the way I need it to without intervention for the most part. Thanks again.

you do what you feel is necessary.

However, I do want to caution you about the philosophy of "It works the way I need it without intervention." That works for a time, but just don't fall into the trap of not doing anything and then when things stop working due to backwards compatibility limitations, and those limitations are coming, you find yourself in a bigger fix than a printer not working and an SD card not reading.