SD cards in e1405

I bought a e1405 about four months ago, and haven't had any problems. But just now, I ran into one. Today, when I tried to stick in a micro SD card(with the adapter of course) into the reader, the computer didn't really read it. When I say don't really read it, I mean, I can't find how to read the card and write to it. I get the safely remove hardware that sees a secure digital card. About a month ago, I used a standard SD card and it worked fine. Any help would be great on why this isn't working right. Also, I have had the dummy SD card in the slot all the time, so no dirt or anything got lodged into their.

 

it should read, check your drivers. If you had your SD card work so this miniSD should work with the adapter.

 

uninstalling and reinstalling the Ricoh driver is worth a try.

 

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the Ricoh drivers, and it didn't work, the symptoms are still the same. If I can't get to the card normally, is their any backdoor into the card for browsing instead of doing it the normal way?

 

Did the card acidentally get locked while you inserted it? There should be a locking white switch on the card itself that would allow recognition, but no read/writes.

 

Oh, I didn't see that it was Micro SD, do those even have locks? (or the reader itself?)

 

Make sure you don't have any network drives mapped in sequence with your current drive mappings. Removable drives will not show up in Windows if this is the case. If you don't have any network drives, then disregard.

 

Thank you ChangFest. That worked. I had a network drive and removing the drive allowed me to see the card. Thanks for everyone's help also.