[Novalug] SD card

greg pryzby greg@pryzby.org
Fri Aug 22 15:37:07 EDT 2014


Return it. Chances are you can (if less than a year old).

If you have a device that uses it (non-computer, like a camera) then
reformat in the camera and try again.

The camera will format it FAT or something that should work.

What do you *want* to do w/ the card?


On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Charles R. Head via Novalug <
novalug@firemountain.net> wrote:

> *Jon,*
>
> Thanks for looking.  I've avoided buying the SDXC cards because they are
> not usable in many (most?) devices, probably for the reason you bring up.
> In any case, it isn't a SDXC card.  It is SDHC 4.
>
> This situation is puzzling.  Specifically:
>
> 1. After a reboot, file managers and gparted can read that the size of
>    the card is 32 GB.
> 2. Also, after a reboot, partition managers say it has a healthy,
>    primary partition on it.
>
> However, if I try to do anything to the card, like format it, I get an
> error message and the card disappears from the list of attached drives.  It
> takes a reboot (or unplugging and replugging the USB cable on Win7) to get
> it back.  Just rescanning the drives will not get it back.
>
> I wish I could find a way to just wipe everything on the card and start
> from scratch.  Something must have gotten loaded sideways and is now stuck
> (Caution: this is the highly technical explanation, it may interfere with
> cerebral logic processes.).
>
> I even tried several Windows utilities.  They couldn't fix it either.
>
> I'm going to toss it and move on the more fruitful endeavors. Thank you
> for trying to help.
>
> *Charlie Head*
>
> ****************************************
> On 8/22/2014 2:19 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>
>> Charles,
>>
>> While on the SDcard.org website I came across a
>> remark that I paraphrase here:
>>
>>    If you plug a SDXC card into a SD slot it may not
>>    be recognized.  You may need to install a driver
>>    specific for the SDXC format.
>>
>> I think you said it was a high capacity card.  Might
>> it be the SDXC type for which you may need a driver?
>>
>> Jon
>>
>
>
>
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