Quote: Originally Posted by
Mark C 
Carey, thank you for the response and the link. The link was unhelpful, my
card reader is a new model, and works in Windows XP but not Vista. Many
other people have reported this issue in many other forums.
"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:
> Visit Secure Digital card - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
> and read "Compatibility issues with 2 GB and larger cards".
> Your issue is due to your hardware limitation and not
> with Windows Vista. You'll need to purchase a more
> up-to-date memory card reader.
>
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> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Desktop Experience -
> Windows Vista Enthusiast
>
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>
> "Mark C" <NOSPAM@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Greetings.
> I'm using Vista Ultimate 64 bit, SP1, and my multi SD card reader can't
> read 2 gig cards. It can read other cards with less than 2 gig. With the
> 2
> gig card it just sits and tries to read it, doing nothing at all, no offer
> to format or even open a window to view. I've seen many others that have
> this issue. Has this been fixed to anyone's knowledge? Thanks in
> advance.
> -Mark
>
> Mark,
I was having a similar issue with my 2GB card using Vista Business 32bit on an HP NC6400 laptop w/built-in card reader. I would get the "You Must Format This Volume" message, & when I tried, it would say that "Windows was unable to format this volume"
I could boot into linux & use the card no problem! It also worked in XP on other PCs.
After much hunting, I found this thread regarding a 4GB card:
Integrated Card Reader 4GB SD Success - Notebooks - PC Hardware - Whirlpool Broadband Forums
None of the new drivers made a difference, but making the following change to the registry key worked (as in above post)!
Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\tifm21\Parameters
change the "SDParam" dword value from decimal "16" to decimal "1" & reboot.
Hope this helps!
-Mooch