why wont my sd card work help???/

[anthony25]

have a toshiba laptop with a slot at the front that i put my sd card in from my digital camera its been working fine for ages you just simply put the card in and it comes up on the screen the pictures etc now when i put the card in nothing happens at all?????

[Xpinger]

Firstly it is worth saying that there could of course be a physical reason why this is not working.

However, normally when an SD card is inserted in a laptop I believe it to be recognised as a drive and assigned a drive letter much the same as a USB stick. This is normally linked to a message popping up on the screen in Windows XP or Vista asking you what you would like to do, and I think at least in some instances there is an option to say don't present this message in the future. This I think is what might have happened in your case.

If you venture into Windows Explorer can you see the drive letter of the SD card in the directory tree / structure normally displayed on the left hand side of the screen? If necessary select 'My Computer' and you should see C:, D: etc. including whatever drive designation your SD card has been given. An easy way to try and determine the drive letter of the SD card is to first of all view 'My Computer' with the SD card removed, and then to view 'My Computer' with the SD card inserted and there should be an additional drive designation displayed.

If you can see the SD drive letter in Windows Explorer then by right mouse clicking on the drive letter and selecting properties, and then left mouse clicking on the 'AutoPlay' tab, there should be a selection that can be made which reads 'Prompt me each time to choose an action' and by selecting this the presentation of the message when you first insert the SD card should be restored.

If instead however you cannot see the drive letter of the SD card in 'My Computer' when the card is inserted, this could be suggestion either a physical fault or a driver issue with the SD-reader.

Please try the above suggestion first before we look more deeply (possibly unnecessarily) into this problem.

[ACtheTROLL]

is the sd card not working .... or is it just not autoplaying?

with the card in the camera ... can you view any pics on there?

if not - and assuming that there is nothing irreplaceable ... format the card ... take a couple of snaps ... see if they show on the camera ... and there are no error messages

then try it in the PC - if it's ok in both ... ok
if it shows in camera ..but not in pc - the pc is the problem

if the card is useless in camera and pc ... it's the card ... get a new one (make sure that the size you want is compatible with your camera - some older ones will only read certain sizes)

[Jenga]

Check if the card is damaged or not. I have one where the back is a little damaged and wasn't working until I smoothed or wires down at the back.