Topic: Vista Wants To Format SD Card (Read 4883 times)

curlin · « **on:** 19-September-09, 06:00:20 »

Plugged my mobile via usb cable into my new ex630 running vista32. I want to copy over the 400 songs on the phone's 2gb micro sd card to my computer. However, vista wants to format the card

It shows my phone in "my computer" but wants to format when i access it. Tried multiple usb ports but same result and my wireless mouse works fine. Any ideas?

Mike · « **Reply #1 on:** 19-September-09, 06:48:10 »

Have you tried taking the SD card out of the phone and putting it in an SD card reader?

curlin · « **Reply #2 on:** 19-September-09, 07:49:14 »

No, i can't seem to find the card adapter for the reader that came with it when i bought it.

Mike · « **Reply #3 on:** 19-September-09, 21:56:08 »

Does it work in other computers, or do they want to format the card too? Borrow a card reader or buy another one to test the SD card alone. Many notebooks and netbooks come with built-in card readers, you can test the SD card there as well. We need to test outside of the phone using a card reader to isolate the issue. Also, in what format are these songs? Are you sure the songs are on the SD card or the phones own internal memory?

curlin · « **Reply #4 on:** 19-September-09, 22:15:50 »

Hey Mike, thanks 4 the help so far. i've hooked up my mobile the same way to alot of different computers in internet shops with never an issue. However, they all ran XP not vista. They are mp3. I've already bluetoothed over a few but it will forever to do them all lol.

Mike · « **Reply #5 on:** 19-September-09, 22:49:28 »

Hmm, I still would like to see you test the SD card alone in a USB card reader. You could always use another computer and put the files on a flash drive or burn to a disc and move them that way(just a work-around for the moment). Does the computer have issues with other usb devices?

Hans · « **Reply #6 on:** 20-September-09, 12:37:27 »

What mobile phone is that?

curlin · « **Reply #7 on:** 20-September-09, 16:41:01 »

It is the Samsung m510

Hans · « **Reply #8 on:** 20-September-09, 18:59:11 »

Is there some driver you need to install on Vista for this to work?

curlin · « **Reply #9 on:** 21-September-09, 02:21:27 »

No luck. Downloaded all updates from microsoft and also the newest drivers from samsung. Thinking vista doesn't see the way my samsung formatted the card.

Aaron · « **Reply #10 on:** 21-September-09, 05:47:55 »

You should be able to connect your phone via USB and copy the files to the memory card that way.

curlin · « **Reply #11 on:** 21-September-09, 06:21:03 »

That's what i'm trying to do but copy the mp3's from my phone to the laptop.

Aaron · « **Reply #12 on:** 21-September-09, 06:48:34 »

Connect via USB and copy from the memory card to the phone then.

curlin · « **Reply #13 on:** 21-September-09, 16:07:17 »

Please read my initial post.

Hans · « **Reply #14 on:** 21-September-09, 19:08:03 »

Aaron, read the first post.... he's trying to do just that.

My suggestion would be as follows: get the data of the card onto some other pc and plug your phone into the laptop. Let Vista format the card and see if it works okay now on the phone. Connect to the pc where you left the data, copy it back and then put your mp3's on the phone's card.

I think the same as you did: Vista has some problem reading the card, probably because of the way it's formatted. (Stupid Vista...

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Aaron · « **Reply #15 on:** 21-September-09, 19:10:45 »

Ah, skim reading FTL.

I thought he was plugging the card in a card reader.

Hans · « **Reply #16 on:** 21-September-09, 21:32:04 »

Well, it's an idea to solve the problem, so you made a very nice contribution...

curlin · « **Reply #17 on:** 22-September-09, 04:13:57 »

Yes i agree that looks like the only option left. I'll let you know what happens. Thanks for the effort.

curlin · « **Reply #18 on:** 23-September-09, 03:14:26 »

sorry for the double post

So i tried the agreed upon solution but ran into another problem :( Went to the internet shop and plugged phone into the XP computer and was able to access the sd card just fine as usual. Moving almost 2 gigs of music was going to take too long so i picked out 30 songs to copy to the xp machine and was gonna let vista format the rest. Plugged into my laptop and of course vista wants to format so i say go ahead. But now the size of the 2 gig card after formatting will only be 968 megabytes Huh

So i canceled the format and am ready to just give up

hahaha.

Hans · « **Reply #19 on:** 23-September-09, 21:53:32 »

Is there more than one partition on that card? maybe a hidden partition with some phone software on it?

curlin · « **Reply #20 on:** 24-September-09, 00:03:24 »

No there isn't. it showed as a 2 gig card when i first put it in the phone. I tried it in a laptop running win7 and same results as vista

Works fine in XP though. I'm just going to get another sd card and see where things go from there.

curlin · « **Reply #21 on:** 29-September-09, 23:44:39 »

Again - sorry about double post but have an update to share:

I found my micro sd card adapter for the card reader in my laptop and once inserted, was able to access everything on my card

So obviously, the problem is reading through the usb cable in vista and not the card itself. But works fine on XP.

Aaron · « **Reply #22 on:** 30-September-09, 13:17:10 »

Sounds like a driver issue, curlin.

curlin · « **Reply #23 on:** 01-October-09, 05:03:14 »

Do you know what in device manager that i should uninstall for this issue and what new drivers i should use? Thanks!.

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