I have a PNY 512mb sd card that reads "cannot access drive not ready&q

[yoda313]

So how do I get around this? I have the built in card readers that are common on emachines. I can see the sd card in the windows explorer. I can format it. It even tells me when the lock is on. BUT I can't copy any files to it!!! I have only been able to copy a single 1kb txt file to the card. Anything larger won't transfer. It simply says drive not ready. What do I do to correct this?

Thanks.

[SingSing]

It can be your PC/card reader/software or the SD card.
Formats and snaps a few shots with your camera or camercoder, and see what happened.

[yoda313]

I wish I could but my digital camera is a memory stick sony model. This is a sd card.

I bought one of those sd memory card adapters for my gameboy advance off of ebay. It works because it read the 1kb txt file I was able to transfer over. Anything larger than 1kb seems to just die during transfer - it won't complete the copy for some reason.

I have used the card readers before.....

ARGGHH!!!

[SingSing]

Can you format or transfer files from the gameboy ?

[yoda313]

Unfortunately no - it doesn't have a usb dongle.

But I found out something interesting - I tried extracting a file from winzip to the sd card and it said error possible cause disk full.

So even though I formatted it apparently the computer still thinks its a full memory card????

EDIT -

I tried the old dos prompt and format g:

It was working but:



Did I get a bad card?

I guess I'll just have to go back and exchange it....

[SingSing]

Power down the PC, reboot, and format from XP, and try again.

[SingSing]

Formats and snaps a few shots with your camera or camercoder, and see what happened.

You can goto any electronics or offcie store, pick a SD card camera with battery and try it. It is very common for people to try camera this way, the sales people won't even blink.

[yoda313]

Thanks but I think I'm just going to go and exchange it..... tomorrow..