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Readyboost HELP
Hello all,
I must say whoever made this web forum did a fantastic job! I'm not sure if I'm in the right subform but I have a question about readyboost.
I have Windows 7 installed on my Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop. My laptop came preloaded with Windows Vista, and I have since then upgraded. I have a built in SD reader slot on my laptop in which I have been trying to use it for Readyboost using an SD card.
Here's the problem. I have four SD cards that I have tried to get to work using ReadyBoost. I have one 1GB SanDisk, one 1GB off brand, one 4GB High-Speed 150x Turbo SD card made by A-Data, and one 4GB Sandisk Ultra II SDHC card with 15 mb/s* specifications. I have seen on various sites that the 150x and Ultra II cards SHOULD work for readyboost. BUT, when I go to event viewer after running some tests I usually get a message such as this:
"The device (Unknown Unknown) will not be used for a ReadyBoost cache because it has insufficient read performance: 1881 KB/sec."
I first thought maybe my A-data card had a bad sector or something because I bought it used on eBay, so I went and bought this Ultra II card at Walmart brand new.
It didn't work on Vista either. However, when I plug a USB flash drive (8GB SanDisk) Readyboost says that it meets the requirements for readyboost. Does anyone have ANY suggestions on how to make Readyboost work for my SD slot? I want to use it then so I don't have to pull any drives when I go traveling.