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Answer» So I've got two COMPUTERS, a laptop and a desktop, both running XP about 4 or 5 years old. I have two 2GB SD cards and one 8GB SDHC card that I use with a Kodak ZI6 video camera. I make a lot of videos in my free time and it's something I like to do a lot. I've had the camera for a few months and it worked great. I bought my first SDHC card and when I used it in either computer it completely crashed the thing and after some research learned my motherboard was too old to support it, which is understandable. The other two SD memory cards I had worked fine for a while. In September after I came back from a TRIP with hours and hours of video. I found that when I plugged my memory cards in several different ways no matter what my computer froze and I had to kill it: using the SD card SLOT on the computer or leaving the card in the camera and utilizing the USB hookup on the camera. I used a temporary solution by borrowing a newer computer and putting the files on there, then transferring them to my computer using an external hard drive as the middle man. I haven't got a chance to try a different memory card besides my three on the computers, but it does work on my friend's newer one running Vista purchased within the last year. Any help would be really appreciated because this is killing me. Laptop: 2 gigs RAM, Webroot, symantic, Norton, Aol comp check up and spyware protection, search and destroy Desktop: ATI radeon card, 2.5 gigs RAM, same antivirus Both have SERVICE pack 3 and legal installationQuote I found that when I plugged my memory cards in several different ways no matter what my computer froze and I had to kill it: using the SD card slot on the computer or leaving the card in the camera and utilizing the USB hookup on the camera. You need to classify this. My personal recommendation is to not use 8GB cards. Use only certified 2GB cards from a major maker. Your computer is not reliable. It seems that many people not not understand the bigger is not always better. The 2 GB cards have a better track record for compatibility.Memory card may be corrupt. SD especially SDHC are prone to crashes 1. Have you tried using a memory card reader? 2. Where the any 'memory card error/s' upon loading SD/SDHC into camera before switching to computer then crashes? Different Digital Camera models(old,new) and now different digital memory card models can cause memory errors, data loss, firmware bugs. 3. Reformatting your card(after file back-up)may solve the issue...Every once in a while SD card manufactures change the specifications on the cards without relabeling them. So old card readers cannot read new cards, but I have never seen the card crash the computer. If the card reader can't read the card it won't. Are you using an external card reader or a card reader build into your computer? Because your computer has been crashing you can bet that several files have been corrupted. You should run check disk and run sfc /scannow into a cmd prompt. Also update the drivers for the card reader. Okay so I was aware that the 8gb one wouldn't work because of the oldness of my computers, but I've been using the 2gb ones for a few months with no problem. I'll try and reformat the cards but that'll be tricky because they freeze my computer. I'll probably try doing it in a new one. get back to yaIt is possible to have more memory than the system can handleFormat them on a WORKING newer machine...you can also partition the 8G into 4 equal 2G partitions...FAT32 I use a 16GB SDHC card with a USB card reader in an old Pentium II laptop with USB1.1 & WinXP and have no issues. Therefore, it's not the age of the motherboard, the size of the memory card, etc. What card reader are you using?I either use the built in card reader or USB plugin on my camera with the memory card inside of it on the desktop, or just USB on the laptop. I've yet to try and reformat them but it seems to me like that might be the solution. I'll also try partitioning the one.Your memory card may have hand a virus.Quote from: frobro on November 02, 2010, 08:45:33 PM I either use the built in card reader or USB plugin on my camera with the memory card inside of it on the desktop, or just USB on the laptop. I've yet to try and reformat them but it seems to me like that might be the solution. I'll also try partitioning the one. I assume they are already formatted FAT32; I wouldn't recommend partitioning them. Did you originally format them with the computer or the camera? Reformat them with the camera which will create the camera's necessary directory structure.

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So I've got two COMPUTERS, a laptop and a desktop, both running XP about 4 or 5 years old. I have two 2GB SD cards and one 8GB SDHC card that I use with a Kodak ZI6 video camera. I make a lot of videos in my free time and it's something I like to do a lot. I've had the camera for a few months and it worked great. I bought my first SDHC card and when I used it in either computer it completely crashed the thing and after some research learned my motherboard was too old to support it, which is understandable. The other two SD memory cards I had worked fine for a while. In September after I came back from a TRIP with hours and hours of video. I found that when I plugged my memory cards in several different ways no matter what my computer froze and I had to kill it: using the SD card SLOT on the computer or leaving the card in the camera and utilizing the USB hookup on the camera. I used a temporary solution by borrowing a newer computer and putting the files on there, then transferring them to my computer using an external hard drive as the middle man. I haven't got a chance to try a different memory card besides my three on the computers, but it does work on my friend's newer one running Vista purchased within the last year. Any help would be really appreciated because this is killing me.

Laptop: 2 gigs RAM, Webroot, symantic, Norton, Aol comp check up and spyware protection, search and destroy
Desktop: ATI radeon card, 2.5 gigs RAM, same antivirus

Both have SERVICE pack 3 and legal installationQuote

I found that when I plugged my memory cards in several different ways no matter what my computer froze and I had to kill it: using the SD card slot on the computer or leaving the card in the camera and utilizing the USB hookup on the camera.

You need to classify this.

My personal recommendation is to not use 8GB cards. Use only certified 2GB cards from a major maker. Your computer is not reliable.

It seems that many people not not understand the bigger is not always better. The 2 GB cards have a better track record for compatibility.Memory card may be corrupt. SD especially SDHC are prone to crashes
1. Have you tried using a memory card reader?
2. Where the any 'memory card error/s' upon loading SD/SDHC into camera before switching to computer then crashes? Different Digital Camera models(old,new) and now different digital memory card models can cause memory errors, data loss, firmware bugs.
3. Reformatting your card(after file back-up)may solve the issue...Every once in a while SD card manufactures change the specifications on the cards without relabeling them. So old card readers cannot read new cards, but I have never seen the card crash the computer. If the card reader can't read the card it won't.
Are you using an external card reader or a card reader build into your computer?

Because your computer has been crashing you can bet that several files have been corrupted. You should run check disk and run sfc /scannow into a cmd prompt. Also update the drivers for the card reader.
Okay so I was aware that the 8gb one wouldn't work because of the oldness of my computers, but I've been using the 2gb ones for a few months with no problem. I'll try and reformat the cards but that'll be tricky because they freeze my computer. I'll probably try doing it in a new one. get back to yaIt is possible to have more memory than the system can handleFormat them on a WORKING newer machine...you can also partition the 8G into 4 equal 2G partitions...FAT32
I use a 16GB SDHC card with a USB card reader in an old Pentium II laptop with USB1.1 & WinXP and have no issues. Therefore, it's not the age of the motherboard, the size of the memory card, etc. What card reader are you using?I either use the built in card reader or USB plugin on my camera with the memory card inside of it on the desktop, or just USB on the laptop. I've yet to try and reformat them but it seems to me like that might be the solution. I'll also try partitioning the one.Your memory card may have hand a virus.Quote from: frobro on November 02, 2010, 08:45:33 PM

I either use the built in card reader or USB plugin on my camera with the memory card inside of it on the desktop, or just USB on the laptop. I've yet to try and reformat them but it seems to me like that might be the solution. I'll also try partitioning the one.

I assume they are already formatted FAT32; I wouldn't recommend partitioning them. Did you originally format them with the computer or the camera? Reformat them with the camera which will create the camera's necessary directory structure.

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