mespock
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Why am I only being able to put 543 mb on a 2 gig SD card?
How do I open up the damn card so I can fill'er up...
How do I open up the damn card so I can fill'er up...
Stupid Computer Question ... Someone with a Computer brain help
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Warden
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Was the SD card new or used?
How are you accessing the SD card through the computer?
You might need to format the SD card. Of course formating the card will delete all info already on the card.
You can format the card by right clicking in the drive that the computer assigns the card in the 'my computer' folder and selecting format.
You could even format through the device you are putting the SD card into if the device has the option.
How are you accessing the SD card through the computer?
You might need to format the SD card. Of course formating the card will delete all info already on the card.
You can format the card by right clicking in the drive that the computer assigns the card in the 'my computer' folder and selecting format.
You could even format through the device you are putting the SD card into if the device has the option.
mespock
Marxists - Socialists
I have a radio on my motorcycle that used SD cards. I'm heading out on a trip out west so I want to fill up the cards.
2 of the cards are bran new. 1 I had filled up many times before.
I have windows vista if that helps or hurts any..
2 of the cards are bran new. 1 I had filled up many times before.
I have windows vista if that helps or hurts any..
mespock
Marxists - Socialists
I just tried something different.
I put all the songs that I had originally put on the card into a folder, then made another folder and I'm able to put more songs in it.
I don't know if my player can play from different folders but I'm going to see what happens.
I put all the songs that I had originally put on the card into a folder, then made another folder and I'm able to put more songs in it.
I don't know if my player can play from different folders but I'm going to see what happens.
Warden
Dedicated LVC Member
The operating system shouldnt matter.
It is possible that the cards have lost sectors that need to be recovered.
Go to the Computer folder and right click on the SD card and go to properties. Got to the tools tab and select 'error checking'. Select every option for the error check and let it do its thing. Hopefully it'll find and recover bad sectors. Then format the card.
When the SD card is in the computer and you go to computer and right click and go to properties how much space does the card show? Is the pie chart full?
It is possible that the cards have lost sectors that need to be recovered.
Go to the Computer folder and right click on the SD card and go to properties. Got to the tools tab and select 'error checking'. Select every option for the error check and let it do its thing. Hopefully it'll find and recover bad sectors. Then format the card.
When the SD card is in the computer and you go to computer and right click and go to properties how much space does the card show? Is the pie chart full?
mespock
Marxists - Socialists
Got it thanks .... card is filling up now ... last trip I had about 500 - 600 songs on a card.
Couldn't remember what I did to open them up. Now they are filling up.
Couldn't remember what I did to open them up. Now they are filling up.
ground_zero298
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Sometimes vista will lock out sectors on a card ( vista is a backup bitch). Just do a quick format on it, (card, propeties, quick format) that will open it all up to you. Hell vista will store 40 gigs on my hard drive just in auto back ups every week. Constantly have to clear it out.
Chadly
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What kinda bike you riding?
mespock
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Goldwing
It's not the OS, it's the file system. A FAT/FAT32 volume can only have so many files in its root directory; if you exceed that number (which escapes me at the moment), it doesn't matter how much free space you have on the volume, you can't write any more files to it. As Rich discovered, put the songs in folders and you're golden. (I had actually forgotten about this limitation until I was loading pictures onto an SD card for my mother's LCD picture frame a few months ago.)