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Just pulled the card one a camera that's been out for a month. camera says it took 1900 pics and the SD card won't detect on any computer, camera, etc. Would like to know what was on it anyone have an ideas? It is a brand new 32G san disk...
 
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I have some coverts that I bought this year. My laptop is almost ten years old. It doesnt detect that I am putting a card into it. My laptop at work reads the cards just fine which is only a year old computer. I have old software in my personal computer and It wont read the new stuff.

If your camera has a spot where you can hook a usb cord up, you should be able to view the pics right off your camera that way.
 
blackdogs said:
Just pulled the card one a camera that's been out for a month. camera says it took 1900 pics and the SD card won't detect on any computer, camera, etc. Would like to know what was on it anyone have an ideas? It is a brand new 32G san disk...
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If your card isn't being picked up on your computer, good chance might be something with your computer. I have a lab top that has a bad hard drive and it won't read any SD cards. I'd try using a camera or different computer. If that doesn't work, I've also had to "lock" the SD and try it then. For some reason I have a couple kodak 4gs that won't allow you to view them unless you lock them prior to putting them in your computer. It comes up with a "you must format" error. Learned that the hard way by formatting a card that had 3000 pics and by doing so it erased them all :thrwrck:
 
My PC is reading all the other cards from the same cameras so I don't think that is it. The card is not locked. Wondering if there is a recovery process or some way to force it to recognize the card...
 
I had that happen to me several times when I used covert cameras. I tried viewing them on a different computer and a few times it worked. Got sick of the problem and got rid of the coverts. End of problem. Curious as to what camera you were using.
 
I would try it in another computer and see what happens. If you are placing it in a built in sd slot try using a card reader that goes in a usb port.
 
I had this happen one time. My computers said the same thing... wouldn't even detect the card. It was a problem with the card. I downloaded some SD data recovery program off the internet and was able to get into the card and recover most the pics. Now I make sure I format all my cards on my PC before I load them in the cams.
 
This may sound silly, but perhaps the card has too much memory for the computer to read. My wife's computer doesn't have an SD card slot so she tried to use an old hard wired (USB) card reader. It wouldn't "read" the 8 gig card but it did read a 1 gig and 4 gig card. The 8 gig read fine in mine. She wanted the photos so I down loaded them from her card to a CD, her computer has a cd/dvd reader. That was an hour I'll never get back.

Anyway, your computer may not read a 32 gig card. There are still some cameras in use that take a max of 8 gig card so it stands to reason, to me anyway, there are readers that will only read up to 8 gig cards.
 
What fishbonker said. Your computer probably doesn't have the correct driver installed to read that big a card. My old laptop will only read a 2G card. Try a newer computer.
 
made that mistake once with that same card. Ended up having to go to walmart to their photo booth to view and print them off. never used the card again.
 
I think bonker is right. Did I just seriously say that? Weird. Anyway, with that big of a card you need a newer card reader. Do you use other cards of that size?
 
I don't remember, it was a couple yrs back. I do remember I had to download a free trial of a program and that it wasn't too easy to figure out! After a lot of dinking around, I got it to work.
 
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