Flash Card Memory 1gb And 2gb Same Thing!!!

I bought a Kingston 2gb SD card recently from buy.com. When I stuck the card in my pc it showed up as 1gb so I googled the web looking for a fix and I came across this free fix utility by another SD card manufacturer Ridata and used it on my card and it solved the problem, the card now shows as 2gbs. I decided to try the same utility on a Ridata 1gb card I've owned for along time. It worked - it transformed my 1gb into a 2gb card!

 

and this free utility would be?

 

yes, i would like to know too

 

Did a google and found it.
http://www.ridata.com/asia_en/faq-fm.htm

scroll down to Question 11. I downloade it bit it wouldnt let me open it,said i had to go online to find the correct program to open it,so i did then it Said something about getting Win RAR or something like that after trying to use it

 

I did it with my microSD card too!

It will format your sd card so back up first!

The file zipped is 5kb over notebook review for zip files so i cant attach it. You can download it from ridata's site but you will need to be able to decompress rar files if you download it from there.

http://www.ritekusa.com/jsp/SD_Cards_Download.jsp

or uncompressed at

http://rapidshare.com/files/18949359/SDFix2G.exe.html

 

Very interesting. I have 1 gb MicroSD coming in the mail, gonna see what it does...

 

second link does'nt work.

 

I cant even get it recognize my card as a storage drive.

 

Sorry to build up hopes.... the utility did work to fix my real 2gb card but I am running into errors when transferring data to the 1gb reformatted into 2gb card - please see this thread for more info

http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/messageview.php?catid=28&threadid=708807&newest=1

 

has only filled up the 1gb card posing to be a 2gb card? possibly this program just tricks the card to tell ur pc that its a 2 gb card?

 

That's weird. Flash Cards aren't supposed to be upgradable to higher memories than what they already have. If ever it can be, hardware modification may be involved.

 

madroxinide, you are correct, it tricks windows and unfortunately me too into thinking it was a 2gb card - so I take back my claim and apologize to those who have tried it. It did however correctly fix my legit 2gb card that was showing as 1gb.

Hopefully this can make up somewhat - it is a great free utility that meets sd orgs specifications for formatting cards....

If you are having trouble formatting your cards, you can format them legit using this Panasonic Utility provided by sdcard.org:

http://www.sdcard.org/Downloads.aspx