FAT32 Memory Cards

I bought a 8GB microSD to use in my Smartphone.
It works fine in the phone but it does not work in any of my card readers.
It does not show up as a removable drive on my laptop or PC with WinXP SP2.
Another oddity, using Windows Media Player 11 with the phone using a 2GB
(FAT16) card WM would sync my playlists. Not with the 8GB card although I can
drag and drop the music onto the card through WM. Not quite a handy as
syncing playlists.

Any thoughts?

Pavel
Mon Apr 14 17:37:03 PDT 2008

"Chris" <Chris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E0607CA9-E7CF-4FE6-A54B-3A9A9C4BD498@microsoft.com...
> I bought a 8GB microSD to use in my Smartphone.
> It works fine in the phone but it does not work in any of my card readers.
> It does not show up as a removable drive on my laptop or PC with WinXP
> SP2.
> Another oddity, using Windows Media Player 11 with the phone using a 2GB
> (FAT16) card WM would sync my playlists. Not with the 8GB card although I
> can
> drag and drop the music onto the card through WM. Not quite a handy as
> syncing playlists.
>
> Any thoughts?

A thought: 8 GB card is most probably HC (high capacity) standard,
and your PC reader doesn't support HC.
Get a HC compatible USB reader.

--PA

Chris
Mon Apr 14 18:29:00 PDT 2008

Thanks the SDHC card reader will fix part of the problem.
The issue with WM is now solved. I searched KB with SDHC as a key word and
came up with http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934428. After installing this
Hotfix WM now syncs with my phone using the 8GB card.

"Pavel A." wrote:

> "Chris" <Chris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E0607CA9-E7CF-4FE6-A54B-3A9A9C4BD498@microsoft.com...
> > I bought a 8GB microSD to use in my Smartphone.
> > It works fine in the phone but it does not work in any of my card readers.
> > It does not show up as a removable drive on my laptop or PC with WinXP
> > SP2.
> > Another oddity, using Windows Media Player 11 with the phone using a 2GB
> > (FAT16) card WM would sync my playlists. Not with the 8GB card although I
> > can
> > drag and drop the music onto the card through WM. Not quite a handy as
> > syncing playlists.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
>
> A thought: 8 GB card is most probably HC (high capacity) standard,
> and your PC reader doesn't support HC.
> Get a HC compatible USB reader.
>
> --PA
>
>
>

M
Tue Apr 15 02:53:35 PDT 2008


"Chris" <Chris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E0607CA9-E7CF-4FE6-A54B-3A9A9C4BD498@microsoft.com...
>I bought a 8GB microSD to use in my Smartphone.
> It works fine in the phone but it does not work in any of my card readers.
> It does not show up as a removable drive on my laptop or PC with WinXP
> SP2.
> Another oddity, using Windows Media Player 11 with the phone using a 2GB
> (FAT16) card WM would sync my playlists. Not with the 8GB card although I
> can
> drag and drop the music onto the card through WM. Not quite a handy as
> syncing playlists.
>

SD cards of 4GB and above are a different architecture to the smaller cards.
Unless the reader is familiar wih this architecture, it won't be able read
them. The card are usually described as SDHC (with a stylised logo) to
indicate their difference from the common or garden SD card. SDHC cards are
also marked with a class number, which is an indication of its maximum
writing speed. The higher the class the faster the card.