Vista - Is it a bug in windows vista 64 that 2gb sd cards don't work

Is this a bug or is it just my machine?
I am using a emachines laptop M6805 with athlon 64 3000
It has a built in card reader. When I insert my Corsair 133x 2GB SD card it
says you need to format the disk in drive G: before you can use it.
When I plug in an external memory card reader it says the same thing.
when I pluy in the external mermory card reader into an windows 2000 or xp
machine the SD card reads fine.
Any suggestions? Is this a bug in Vista? I have searched but found nothing.
Thank you very much

It may be a hardware limitation on your laptop. I can see my 2 GB sd card
just fine on Vista. My laptop running XP has problems using larger than 1 GB
memory cards when I use the pcmcia memory card adaptor. However when I use a
USB memory card reader, it has no problem with the 2 GB sd card. I tried the
2 GB sd card in a friends laptop with a sd card slot built into it and
running Windows XP, and it said the card needed formatting yet I could read
it a few seconds later in my pocket pc device no problem.

"jpgring23" <jpgring23@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news1D52381-16AB-46BB-B77C-7EE90527991F@microsoft.com...
> Is this a bug or is it just my machine?
> I am using a emachines laptop M6805 with athlon 64 3000
> It has a built in card reader. When I insert my Corsair 133x 2GB SD card
> it
> says you need to format the disk in drive G: before you can use it.
> When I plug in an external memory card reader it says the same thing.
> when I pluy in the external mermory card reader into an windows 2000 or xp
> machine the SD card reads fine.
> Any suggestions? Is this a bug in Vista? I have searched but found
> nothing.
> Thank you very much

After posting a reply I now see that you are using a 64 bit version, my
version of Vista is the 32 bit that I have no problems with, and my laptop
can't install Vista at all, not enough ram.

"jpgring23" <jpgring23@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news1D52381-16AB-46BB-B77C-7EE90527991F@microsoft.com...
> Is this a bug or is it just my machine?
> I am using a emachines laptop M6805 with athlon 64 3000
> It has a built in card reader. When I insert my Corsair 133x 2GB SD card
> it
> says you need to format the disk in drive G: before you can use it.
> When I plug in an external memory card reader it says the same thing.
> when I pluy in the external mermory card reader into an windows 2000 or xp
> machine the SD card reads fine.
> Any suggestions? Is this a bug in Vista? I have searched but found
> nothing.
> Thank you very much

"Gary Mount" wrote:

> After posting a reply I now see that you are using a 64 bit version, my
> version of Vista is the 32 bit that I have no problems with, and my laptop
> can't install Vista at all, not enough ram.
>
> "jpgring23" <jpgring23@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news1D52381-16AB-46BB-B77C-7EE90527991F@microsoft.com...
> > Is this a bug or is it just my machine?
> > I am using a emachines laptop M6805 with athlon 64 3000
> > It has a built in card reader. When I insert my Corsair 133x 2GB SD card
> > it
> > says you need to format the disk in drive G: before you can use it.
> > When I plug in an external memory card reader it says the same thing.
> > when I pluy in the external mermory card reader into an windows 2000 or xp
> > machine the SD card reads fine.
> > Any suggestions? Is this a bug in Vista? I have searched but found
> > nothing.
> > Thank you very much


I guess I forgot to mention that the card and card reader worked fine
reading 2gb on this same laptop running xp pro before I wiped and installed
vista. I wish I could find some drivers that would fix the problem but I
doubt it since even the external card reader won't work so I figure it is a
bug in vista 64