SD HC Memory cards and XP

[dalew]

Has anyone been able to read any of the SD HC cards used in some
digital cameras on XP? I looked up the problem on MS support and they
had a KB article, KB923293, which said to open a case and they would
send me a hotfilx file. I did, they did, I applied the hotfix and XP
still will not read the card. I can read it on my HP laptop with
Vista on it but all my photo editing S/W is on my XP Pro PC.
Yes, it has SP2.
The USB reader I am using is a Lexar USB 2.0 Multi-Card Reader RW018
Rev D.

Thanks

Dale W.

 

[M.I.5¾]

Has anyone been able to read any of the SD HC cards used in some
digital cameras on XP? I looked up the problem on MS support and they
had a KB article, KB923293, which said to open a case and they would
send me a hotfilx file. I did, they did, I applied the hotfix and XP
still will not read the card. I can read it on my HP laptop with
Vista on it but all my photo editing S/W is on my XP Pro PC.
Yes, it has SP2.
The USB reader I am using is a Lexar USB 2.0 Multi-Card Reader RW018
Rev D.

I think you are labouring under a misapprehension here.

Windows XP is entirely compatible with SD HC cards. The problem is that
most Card readers are not. Any card reader can only read FLASH memory cards
that have a compatible architecture. Almost every card reader is familiar
with all the architectures used by the main manufacturers (there are
surprisingly few). The problem was that once SD cards exceeded 2Gb in size,
the architecture had to radically change, and was only decided upon
relatively recently. The upshot was SD HC cards won't work with the vast
majority of Card readers. If you obtain one that is stated as SD HC
compatible, it should work fine with XP.

 

[dalew]

Thank you for the heads-up on this. I did go out and get one that
specifically said it could read SD HC cards and it works just fine.

Thanks again

Dale W.