SD Card Reader not reading device

I have a Toshiba Satellite P105-S9337 running Vista Home Premium. The laptop
has 1-5 internal card reader.

The reader can read the Memory Stick PRO Duo with no problems. However, it
cannot read the SD Memory card.

I looked under the device manager under SD host adapters and verified that
the SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controlled has the latest drive.

Does anyone have any insight as to how to fix this problem? Any help would
be greatly appreciated.

How is the SD memory card formatted? Fat32 is usually the best format to
use for memory cards.

The problem is when I put my SanDisck 512 mb SD card in the reader, the
laptop does not even show an additional drive (normally e:\drive)

[bball]

My computer has 4 slots for sd cards and such. It was working one day and now it is no longer reading the card. Autoplay is not opening when I put in a SD card. I checked the settings for Autoplay and it is set to Ask me everytime. I looked in the device manager and there was an exclamation point next to 2 USB mass storage devices. I uninstalled them and restarted the computer twice. Once I did this and inserted the card the Autoplay box did appear. I thought the problem was fixed. I clicked to safely remove the hardware. I tried to insert the card again and nothing happened. At one point the computer was only showing 3 devices with removable storage. Now it does show 8. I clicked Disk E and the computer icon is just spinning and will not open it. I have no idea what is going on! Can someone please help??

Ok. That's what I thought. When I use my flash drive it would prompt me to safely remove it. However, I don't think we have ever ejected the SD card from the computer. Once we were finished with the pictures, we'd just take it out. Never had a problem before...Now since we've started using a flash drive with the computer, it seems to messed up.

It doesn't recognize when a SD card is put into the slot. The autoplay box no longer appears.

How can it work one day and then just stop recognizing the device?

"Safely remove hardware" removes the whole cardreader
and it will come back on next reboot.
For card readers the right choice is "Eject", found
when right clicking the drive.

Yanking a SD media without either 'ejecting" the card or "Safely
Remove" the reader can cause these type of problems.

As of Autplay not working, there are a lot of things that can go
wrong:

-- XP can not see the card -- damaged card because of my first remark

-- XP's Autoplay can be "screwed" up by other software. You should
try Microsoft's AutoFix.

[bball]

Noting seems to be working! The SD cards that I'm trying to get to work on the computer are 2 - 4GB SDHC cards. So I thought maybe the reader in the computer was not up to date. I tried to download the update for Vista but said it was not needed for my system. Then, I remembered that I've used an 8GB SDHC card about a year ago and it worked just fine. I was able to load the pictures onto my computer.

What am I suppose to do? Why is nothing working? My XD card works just fine when it's inserted into the slot in the computer; I don't understand why these aren't working.

Any fixes, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks

On Nov 4, 11:00*pm, bball <bball.415...@DoNotSpam.com> wrote:
> Noting seems to be working! *The SD cards that I'm trying to get to work
> on the computer are 2 - 4GB SDHC cards. *So I thought maybe the reader
> in the computer was not up to date. *I tried to download the update for
> Vista but said it was not needed for my system. *Then, I remembered that
> I've used an 8GB SDHC card about a year ago and it worked just fine. *I
> was able to load the pictures onto my computer.
>
> What am I suppose to do? *Why is nothing working? *My XD card works
> just fine when it's inserted into the slot in the computer; I don't
> understand why these aren't working.
>
> Any fixes, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
> Thanks
>
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Do you have a "spare" USB port? There are external USB card readers
that are affordable. At least you would see if the "hardware" inside
is the problem.

[bball]

I think the problem is that the cards are SDHC cards. Although, I want to say that we have imported pics from one of these cards before. I still need to try a regular SD card to see if it'll read it. I did use a card reader for the SDHC card and it worked. Thank you.

On Nov 5, 7:50*pm, bball <bball.417...@DoNotSpam.com> wrote:
> I think the problem is that the cards are SDHC cards. *Although, I want
> to say that we have imported pics from one of these cards before. *I
> still need to try a regular SD card to see if it'll read it. *I did use
> a card reader for the SDHC card and it worked. *Thank you.
>
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It must be noted that the physical size of both the SD and SDHC cards
are the same. It is the internal controls that are different because
the SDHC "squeezes" more storage on the card.

SD cards can be read in SDHC reader but SDHC card can never be read.