Trying to get my SD card format completed on my Vista box.

Ok. I have a micro SD 2 GB memory card for my phone. Now, I used to use it with an adaptor or a USB cable or a drive with my computer. Something changed a few months back and no longer performs this work. Always wants to be formatted and never complete format. I swapped it with one USB port for 3 others with no resolution to my problem. Now I have another computer on the network on the floor also under Vista. Works like a charm every time and never had a problem reading and writing to this card. I've exhausted all the ideas that I could find to try to fix this problem. As a note, all the rest I use for USB (mouse, cam, etc..) all work fine in all ports. So I know this isn't the port, but how windows recognizes the effective date on the map format. A also omitted to mention this, but it does not recognize the card whenever I plug. So I'm finally at a loss with what to do next short of reformat my whole system. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Hi OutlawSZ,

Thank you for your message.

""I know this isn't the port, but how windows recognizes the effective date on the card format " "

How do you come to this conclusion?

I suggest to perform a clean boot to see if a startup program may conflict with this memory card reading:

http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/929135

If this does not work, I recommend that you check your profile for corruption:

http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/fix-a-corrupted-user-profile

Chris
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