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DrrtEgrrT

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I have a 2GB Kodak SD card that worked fine on Win XP and Vista but in Win 7 it shows as 959 MB.
I have formatted long and short. And also formatted in fat and fat32.
I have found no solutions on the net and all drivers are installed correctly.
Any help would be great.
Thanks.
 

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Does it only show it as 959 MB? Or is the storage actually limited to 959 MB?
 

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DrrtEgrrT said:
I have a 2GB Kodak SD card that worked fine on Win XP and Vista but in Win 7 it shows as 959 MB.
I have formatted long and short. And also formatted in fat and fat32.
I have found no solutions on the net and all drivers are installed correctly.
Any help would be great.
Thanks.
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It sounds like the card has some space on it that is not formatted--in other words, you have a 2GB card that is formatted only to use 1GB.

With the SD card inserted, go to Computer Management > Disk Management and see if you have some un-formatted space on the disk. If so, delete the active partition, then create a partition and make sure to use the full 2GB during the format
 

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mpcrsc562 said:
DrrtEgrrT said:
I have a 2GB Kodak SD card that worked fine on Win XP and Vista but in Win 7 it shows as 959 MB.
I have formatted long and short. And also formatted in fat and fat32.
I have found no solutions on the net and all drivers are installed correctly.
Any help would be great.
Thanks.
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It sounds like the card has some space on it that is not formatted--in other words, you have a 2GB card that is formatted only to use 1GB.

With the SD card inserted, go to Computer Management > Disk Management and see if you have some un-formatted space on the disk. If so, delete the active partition, then create a partition and make sure to use the full 2GB during the format
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I did as you said and it shows that there is 1 partition. Fat32 at 964MB. No empty space.
 

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Sorry that didn't work.

Not trying to insult, but are you absolutely, positively sure it is a 2GB card?
 

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mpcrsc562 said:
Sorry that didn't work.

Not trying to insult, but are you absolutely, positively sure it is a 2GB card?
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Understandable, but yes, it is 2GB. It worked like a charm before I went to Win7.
 

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Do you have a camera that you could use to format the card?
 

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ASUStek P5P 800-VM Socket 775
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2Gigs Dual Channel DDR @199 MHx 3-4-4-8
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256MB Radeon x800 GTO LM942 @ 1280x1024
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Realtek
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21' AOC
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Seagate 250GB
WD 125GB
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PowerMan 350w
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Formatted with camera shows 2GB. Put it back into desktop and Win 7 says I need to format before I can use it.:(
 

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2Gigs Dual Channel DDR @199 MHx 3-4-4-8
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256MB Radeon x800 GTO LM942 @ 1280x1024
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Realtek
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Seagate 250GB
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DrrtEgrrT said:
Formatted with camera shows 2GB. Put it back into desktop and Win 7 says I need to format before I can use it.:(
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Did you see if you could use it anyway? Same thing happened to me when I connected my phone to my PC (8GB micro sdhc card). I got a message stating that I had to format the card before use, but I pushed Cancel and was able to read and write to the card no problem.
 

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Did you see if you could use it anyway? Same thing happened to me when I connected my phone to my PC (8GB micro sdhc card). I got a message stating that I had to format the card before use, but I pushed Cancel and was able to read and write to the card no problem.[/QUOTE]

Tried that also to no avail. Says there is no disc please insert blah blah....
 

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Intel Pentium 4 541 Prescott nm
Motherboard
ASUStek P5P 800-VM Socket 775
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2Gigs Dual Channel DDR @199 MHx 3-4-4-8
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256MB Radeon x800 GTO LM942 @ 1280x1024
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Realtek
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21' AOC
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Seagate 250GB
WD 125GB
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PowerMan 350w
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Upgraded fans
I know that sucks... Sorry, but I'm out of ideas. :(
 

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mpcrsc562 said:
I know that sucks... Sorry, but I'm out of ideas. :(
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Thanks for the effort. Im at a dead end with this.:mad:

Can I bump in this forum?
 
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ASUStek P5P 800-VM Socket 775
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As I said earlier, does it only show that you have 1gb of storage? Or are you actually limited to putting 1gb of data on it?
 

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You could try DLing a program calles SwissKnife. I tan format cards with fat32 well beyong the limit that w7 imposes.
 

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Yes, it only allows 1gig of info to be put on and it only show 1gig in drive manager. Anything over 1gig Win tells me there is not enough room on the disk and stops writing to the disk.
I have been trying since I started this thread to try and find an answer and there has been none as of yet.
 

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Intel Pentium 4 541 Prescott nm
Motherboard
ASUStek P5P 800-VM Socket 775
Memory
2Gigs Dual Channel DDR @199 MHx 3-4-4-8
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256MB Radeon x800 GTO LM942 @ 1280x1024
Sound Card
Realtek
Monitor(s) Displays
21' AOC
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Seagate 250GB
WD 125GB
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PowerMan 350w
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Generic
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Upgraded fans
Does this happen for all SD cards? Or just this one in specific?

Tom
 

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Build #1
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Intel i7 3770K @4.5GHz
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Memory
Corsair Vengeance 2x4GB DDR3 1600MHz Low Profile (White)
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Gigabyte Radeon HD 7850 (2GB GDDR5)
Sound Card
Integrated on motherboard
Monitor(s) Displays
23" LG LCD/LED IPS
Screen Resolution
1920*1080
Hard Drives
Samsung EVO 128GB SSD
Seagate Barracuda 2GB 7200rpm
2x Seagate FreeAgent [500gb]
PSU
Corsair TX650W V2 (80+ Bronze)
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NZXT Phantom 410 White
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Corsair H100 Water Cooler
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Microsoft Desktop 2000 Wireless Keyboard
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Microsoft Desktop 2000 Wireless Mouse
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95 Mb/s Download 70 Mb/s Upload
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MSE + MBAM Pro
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Firefox
Its happening to all of them. Ive tried all different sizes and they all come up short on the memory.
 

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win 7
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Intel Pentium 4 541 Prescott nm
Motherboard
ASUStek P5P 800-VM Socket 775
Memory
2Gigs Dual Channel DDR @199 MHx 3-4-4-8
Graphics Card(s)
256MB Radeon x800 GTO LM942 @ 1280x1024
Sound Card
Realtek
Monitor(s) Displays
21' AOC
Hard Drives
Seagate 250GB
WD 125GB
PSU
PowerMan 350w
Case
Generic
Cooling
Upgraded fans
Are you able to try a live CD, and just check that your system can read beyond 1GB without W7 being in the way.

Also, check your pagefile location. Sounds totally bizarely unrelated, but the size makes me suspicious.

Lastly, stick it into the other PC, share it, and see what size W7 thinks it is, and what it will let you store over the network.
 

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