I am trying to back up my routine data to an SD card that is in a slot on the side of my Windows XP laptop.

Just doing a drag and drop to the E drive (SD device) from some highlighted files in a folder on the C drive.

For some reason it refuses to copy countless files giving the error message ...

".... cannot create file or directory"

1/ There is no directory

2/ One file it refused was a simple 25 character text file

3/ It stops the copy as soon as it encoonters the error rather than completing the rest of the files which leaves me wondering how many it copied and which ones.

I could understand if these rejections were some weird file type, but nearly all are text, pdf, jpeg, etc very common file types.

The copy works fine for all files to another folder on the C drive.

The C drive is a NTFS file system

The SD Drive is a FAT file system

It does copy many files just fine.

Anyone have any idea why this refusal of such a simple request ?

Anyone know how to get this backup done ?

try formatting the sd card and re-try .

that worked for me when i had trouble backing up files to a compact flash card.

good luck

secure digital cards have a little lock switch on them , check to see it is off.

then as tax says , reformat the card

Hey, that worked.

Formatting the card, that is.

Thanks Taxexile