#Hp laptop not reading sd card install#
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THAT is what theįirst poster pointed out- along with getting HP to tell him that The point is that HP´s LAPTOPs have this problem.

#Hp laptop not reading sd card full#

There´s just enough room for 32 pics at full resolution, but he only takes a couple of snapshots at a time so there isn´t really a problem! (for him! that is!) He got it in the airport in Singapore (I think) and the sales guy tried to give him a larger memory card for free, but my father- in-law got suspicious and thought he was trying to cheat him, so he insisted on only taking the original 32mb card and bought another one at the same time! The built in reader doesn´t take compact flash so he hooks up his camera.-oh and a short funny story about when he bought his camera. And actually he only has 32mb compactflash cards for his camera, so he doesn´t have a problem.

#Hp laptop not reading sd card install#

If I wanted to install linux on his computer You could imagine the horror on my Father in law´s face if I reformatted his hard drive. I don´t feel the need to understand the problem any more than I do now.

#Hp laptop not reading sd card download#

PS Linuxworks, I will download pics to my Father in law´s HP laptop, and I will use an external card reader in the future. We are just warning about the problem in their laptop computers. I imagine you guys just read the last posts and didn´t catch that. What you guys have are called 'Desktop' computers and as it was said in the very first post, there is not a problem on the HP Desktop computers. You know, those clamshell kind of things that everyone seems to be whipping out every time they want coffee at Starbucks.) (And if by chance you don´t know what a laptop is I´ll rephrase it to call it a 'foldable take-it-with-you computer'. THAT is what the first poster pointed out- along with getting HP to tell him that it IS a limitation on their laptops. It just seems very unlikely that a device would be produced today that is that brain-dead.

The only way to tell is to boot a linux cdrom (so you take windows out of the equation) and THEN see if you can read a blank sd card and see the whole partition size (yes, cards have partition tables just like hard drives do).

#Hp laptop not reading sd card code#

Its possible that windows ran some auto-insert code when you inserted it and then formatted it or did something bad.

#Hp laptop not reading sd card driver#

that simply isn't a hardware issue - its all in the driver software (read: windows). and none of them - none - would EVER be built with a hard limit on the filesize or partition size. There aren't too many chipsets that do card reading. I don't have all the details on this, but I'm more likely to blame windows than your reader. Like I said, I lost the use of HALF of my 1 gig card JUST BY Things you show us, (Pretty cool thing I think) but that it isĭANGEROUS to put your card into one of those built in readers in a The point is not that it is possible to buy one of those little P/s: incidentally this 256MB limit applies to all MS/Pro, SD, MMC, etc cards.

Hope this info comes in useful for someone out there with an built-in HP/Compaq notebook. The strange thing is that they's installed reader on their desktops that can read up to 2GB. She didn't even know readers had limits!!! I received another newer Compaq laptop (office) and this time I called in to ask about the card reading limits, thinking maybe in the 6 months that past they'd improve the limits, but again the tech guy over the phone doesn't know a thing.

They've replaced the part, reloaded the OS tested and shipped it back to me saying that they realised that it can only take max 256MB and there really wasn't any thing wrong to begin with! At least HP pays first class overnight both ways! They finally had me send the unit in saying that its faulty. So after doing all sorts of tests with tech help over the phone (2 hours), suspecting that the SD cards were faulty, and even reinstalling the operating system. Its one thing that its not mentioned in the specs that came with the box, its another thing that the HP/Compaq tech guys didn't know it themselves. I found out this info the hard way and frankly I'm still quite surprised that the technicians at HP/Compaq didn't know of this. So if you insert anything >Ģ56MB you'll get an error reading or it keep telling you to format the card. If you own one of these, be warned that they only read up to 256MB. Sparked by an earlier post about the Kingston card reader, I just want to share some recent info about HP & Compaq notebook/laptop's built in card readers.