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    error messages on SD-Card

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Pirx, Jan 20, 2010.

  1. Pirx

    Pirx Notebook Virtuoso

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    I just tried out this nice new 32GB Sandisk Extreme SD-Card, but something seems to be fishy. I formatted the card as NTFS (quick format), which worked fine, but everytime I try to apply security permissions, I get error messages, saying "Unable to apply security permissions to SD-Card" "Access denied on I:". Funny thing is, after those messages it looks like the permissions have been applied just fine. The card acts the same way on two entirely different laptops (an M90 with 32-bit Vista, and an M6400 with 64-bit Windows 7).

    Has anybody seen this? Should I just return the card? As far as I can tell, it seems to work fine reading and writing files once the permissions are set. :confused:
     
    Pirx, Jan 20, 2010
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  2. tilleroftheearth

    tilleroftheearth Wisdom listens quietly...

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    You may very well have to return the card; if you don't get a compatible SD card reader.

    This seems like a hardware issue (new card, old reader), not an O/S limitation.

    Good luck.
     
    tilleroftheearth, Jan 21, 2010
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  3. Pirx

    Pirx Notebook Virtuoso

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    Hmmph, that M6400 isn't that old... But you may well be right. Howevere, I found this on a Panasonic website. This seems to say that you generally can't format SD-Cards on PCs (or maybe only Panasonic SDHCs?). Of course, I did format my SD-Card to NTFS immediately, so maybe that is what caused the problem. And of course, if the card is formatted as FAT32, I can't have problems with security settings. Panasonic's formatting utility that would allow you to properly format SD-Cards on PCs is supposed to come out mid-February. I may try again then.
     
    Pirx, Jan 21, 2010
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  4. stumo

    stumo Notebook Consultant

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    First thing to do is actually try to copy and verify via CRC that the card will take 32GB (or formatted part thereof) worth of data. There are TONS of fake sandisk cards out there. I just got one (32GB Extreme III) and it actually turned out to be a very old 128MB card re-flashed to think it is 32GB! it worked if you only put a few MB of data on it, but as soon as you put 100+MB it was just throwing away the extra 31.8GB of data. And it was dog slow, obviously.
     
    stumo, Jan 21, 2010
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  5. Pirx

    Pirx Notebook Virtuoso

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    Interesting. Well, the package it came in did look very legitimate, including a coupon with a valid serial number for some recovery software from Sandisk. In any case, this card is going back for a refund, and that's going to be the end of this.
     
    Pirx, Jan 21, 2010
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