Readyboost

I have a 6 in 1 Sandisk reader with an 8gb sdhc etreme card. I can not get the readyboost to even show as an option. Any ideas?

 

I will assume that you are using Win7 or Vista... Some flash memory works and some does not. The problem could also be that you are trying to use the Sandisk reader.

Go the the thread in my Sig below to read of previous adventures with this M$ Utility.

 

Is it a pcmcia reader? Probably your Sandisk reader is not fast enough. Most pcmcia readers are 16bits and they are just to slow.... Try to find a real cardbus reader....

 

Ok I guess I didn't give enough info...Readyboost is not showing up for any device what so ever...It is not in windows at all, however the reader is 32 bit

 

We need more info. What OS are you using?

What port is the card-reader using?

Are you sure the card-reader is SDHC compatible? When I first got a SDHC card I thought I had a bad card because the reader at the time would not read it but would
read my other cards fine. Turned out I needed a reader compatible with SDHC cards.

By any device, what specifically do you mean, what did you try? Hard drives, pen drives, cards etc.

Is your main HD an SSD? Readyboost is not an option on a machine equipped with an SSD because it would be redundant.

 

Readyboost is not on my Windows 7 system anywhere...even for my thumb drive that worked fine on 7 a week ago...It's not the car or the port its readyboost not being in my system...I've read other forums and apparently I'm not the only one having this issue...however noone has a solution on any of the forums

 

Did you happen to catch the questions above?
It's hard to help with so few details to go on.
Also what flavor (version) of Win 7 are you using?

As I understand it ReadyBoost isn't anywhere on the system like in the control panel or anything it's built in. You right-click on an external device and select properties, there should be a ReadyBoost tab.



Even if the device is not compatible, there's still a tab and it will tell you why it can't work.



It will also let you know if a device will work but must have more space.





The ReadyBoost tab only appears on removable devices, NOT external harddrives. Perhaps Windows sees your devices as external harddrives and not "removable media"

If you did not have the right media it would appear as if your machine did not have ReadyBoost.

 

There is no ready boost tab..my problem is not the device. It is not having a tab at all on any device even ones that I was using a week ago

 

So what you are saying is you had the ReadyBoost option before, but now it is gone, AND you have the exact same computer, OS, and hardware, correct?

Have you changed ANYTHING, e.g., updated windows, using a different computer, different card-reader, or installed new hardware of any type?
Also have you authenticated you windows installation?

 

Well it finally pulls up with my flash drive on my docking station usb port but it cant be use because it's usb 1.1, which I knew, but it at least shows...It stil doesnt even show on my reader thats a 30 m/b sdhc card......it doesnt ever give the option....what gives?

 

Have you tried a thumb drive to just see if Readyboost will show .

 

Errr, this is not a Windows 7 Basic installation by any chance? I know that version does not support Readyboost.

 

no man its ultimate

 

On my CF-51 Windows 7 I have readyboost . My sd card reader is built in...not a multi card reader. Please look at the 3 pictures. These are the three steps that I get when I install readyboost. I get the same screen with a couple other cards that will not run readyboost but the last picture says "does not support readyboost"
I got this from ReadyBoost - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia maybe this is the problem

(1)-If the system drive is a solid state drive (SSD), ReadyBoost is disabled since it would have little or no effect

(2)-Because ReadyBoost stores its cache as a file rather than directly using the flash device in a raw manner, that file system must be mounted and assigned a drive letter . Simply mounting as a subfolder of another drive won't suffice, as only the root folder of a drive is suited for ReadyBoost cache — otherwise the “ReadyBoost” tab will not appear in the logical volume properties, nor will any previously created cache file be used

 

How to get readyboost on XP: Using your Flash Drive as a Page File

 

I have Windows 7 ultimate. A 32 bit sandisk pcmcia sdhc reader with a sandisk extreme 8gb card. My ready boost tab will not even show up in properties. Any ideas...I searched other forums and did registry fixes and all kinds of crap.

 

The PCMCIA/CardBus bus isn't nearly fast enough for ReadyBoost; you need to be using a USB2.0 port. Try your SDHC card in a USB2.0 card reader.

mnem
P00t.

 

I got it working with a Cardbus SDHC card reader in my 18. Reading is about 20MB/second in Win7. Writing about 6.5MB/second. I'm using a 16MB Emtec Class 6 SDHC card.

 

My reader is a 32 bit and my card is a class 10..so it should work...how did you do it? What reader?

 

It doesn't have a brand, but it is the same thing as Ebay item 120614549029.

 

Well... I stand corrected. I've tried several times with no luck; never could get it to validate.

mnem
Invalid.

 

What I've red, most readers that are sold as Cardbus are in fact just plain 16 bits cards with a copper strip....

The one I got doesn't support 16bit slots at all. The Readyboost thing was just plug & play. Didn't had to do anything special to get it working.... It looks like its some kind of clone of the Panasonic SDHC Cardbus reader.

Bottleneck in my case is clearly the speed of the SDHC card itself.