Vista - Vista Downgraded My Memorycard!

Last year, i bought one of Virgins Mobile Lobster 700 TV smartphones, which i
also bought a 2GB micro SD card for. Recently i went to a friends house and
tried plugging my phone into her laptop with vista on to see how vista works
when it comes to utalising phones. It installed a download from the update
thing to let it work with my phone, and it all seemed fine. Afterwards, when
getting home i decided to put some more music onto my memory card but it said
that i only had a small amount of memory left. I thought that it must be
wrong, but when i checked, it had actually changed the size of the card. It
was meant to have 2Gb, but it only said it had 945MB in total! thats about as
much as i had used before using my friends laptop. I used the Administrative
Tools on my parents XP computer to check and there was no other partitions or
anything, it had just magically downsized! what should i do? im missing over
a Gig in space?

"Cris Rowlands" <Cris Rowlands@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Last year, i bought one of Virgins Mobile Lobster 700 TV smartphones,
> which i
> also bought a 2GB micro SD card for. Recently i went to a friends house
> and
> tried plugging my phone into her laptop with vista on to see how vista
> works
> when it comes to utalising phones. It installed a download from the update
> thing to let it work with my phone, and it all seemed fine. Afterwards,
> when
> getting home i decided to put some more music onto my memory card but it
> said
> that i only had a small amount of memory left. I thought that it must be
> wrong, but when i checked, it had actually changed the size of the card.
> It
> was meant to have 2Gb, but it only said it had 945MB in total! thats about
> as
> much as i had used before using my friends laptop. I used the
> Administrative
> Tools on my parents XP computer to check and there was no other partitions
> or
> anything, it had just magically downsized! what should i do? im missing
> over
> a Gig in space?


Have you enabled Readyboost with the card?

--
Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca

no i dont think i have. isnt that the thing where it can use usb devices as
extra ram when it needs it?

"Cris Rowlands" <CrisRowlands@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> no i dont think i have. isnt that the thing where it can use usb devices
> as
> extra ram when it needs it?


Yes. If you had done that it would explain the problem. To be sure plug it
back in to the Vista computer and see if readyboost is turned on.

--
Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca

Ready boost can be supported by either a USB flash drive or by a direct
plug in memory card such as the SD card which you have. And if part of it
is configured as for memory boost that part acts as a cache drive to your
paging or virtual memory file to increase performance when data needs to be
retrieved from your paging file.
"Cris Rowlands" <CrisRowlands@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> no i dont think i have. isnt that the thing where it can use usb devices
> as
> extra ram when it needs it?