Win XP Pro and SD cards

[Assurancetourix]

Hi everybody,

I have to cameras ;

the first one an Olympus TG 610 with a 8 Gb SD card

the second one a Lumix FZ 200 with a 64 Gb SD card

I can read the 8 Gb if I put it in a card reader or if I swith directly the camera on the computer ;

I cannot read the 64 Gb with the two manners;

Is it because the 64 Gb is to big for Win XP Pro ?

or is it another problem ?

I have tried also to put the 64 Gb in the little Olympus TG 610 and switch it directly on the computer;

I have the same problem; I cannot read it ;

I have always the same answer only with the 64 Gb

" the card is not formated; do you want to format it ? Yes/No "

I click on " No " because I don't want to lose what I have on it !!

Thanks for your answers..

Regards

A

[RKASA]

It may say it is not formatted because the format is not what it is expecting to see.

Try putting it into linux that can read other then just fat32 and nfts formats and see if it mounts there and then you can save the data.

Reformat after saving the data and make it fat32 so windows can see it.

[KhunBENQ]

Have you installed this? (exFAT Support for XP, update from Microsoft)

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=19364

KB article:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/955704/

After you download the file that is described in the "More Information" section, you will be able to format external media in the exFAT format. Additionally, you will be able to format external media that is larger than 32 GB, and exFAT-formatted media will be recognized on the computer. More improvements of the exFAT file system are described in the "More Information" section.

Edited April 13, 2015 by KhunBENQ

[FlorC]

4 & 8 GB went fine but 32 GB didn't work , so I installed :

KB934428 Hotfix for Windows XP that adds support for SDHC cards that have a capacity of more than 4 GB .

That got me to 32 GB (in FAT32). I haven't got any 64 GB SD's yet.

I'm not gonna try exFAT. My XP sp2 is stable and adding another formating seems risky.

[katana]

How old is the SD card reader? Might be some incompatibility problem with large 64 GB cards.

Check the manufacturer's website to see if it supports 64GB.

[kkerry]

SD HC supports up to 32GB only.

64GB and above cards are SD XC. Get yourself a USB 3.0 reader and check the standards it supports before you purchase.

[katana]

Looks like kkerry is correct:

SDHC supports between 2GB-32GB.

http://www.sdcard.org/developers/overview/capacity/

[Assurancetourix]

Thank u for your answer;

Some friends and " Gogole is my friend " confirm that Win XP supports max 32 Gb SD cards ..

So it's normal my 64 Gb Sd cards cannot be recognised .

[KhunBENQ]

I'm not gonna try exFAT. My XP sp2 is stable and adding another formating seems risky.

If an update of 2009 imposed a risk, it would be well known I guess.,

Thread result/conclusion surprises me,

Your main risk is SP2.

Really not updated to SP3????

[FlorC]

I'm not gonna try exFAT. My XP sp2 is stable and adding another formating seems risky.

If an update of 2009 imposed a risk, it would be well known I guess.,

Thread result/conclusion surprises me,

Your main risk is SP2.

Really not updated to SP3????

Oh not again ! Every update/patch has risks and changes stuff , changes that I don't want.

I have reviewed all of the sp3 patches and nearly none of them are needed. If you look up every KB on the windows site , microsoft itself says : only apply when needed or when you have the problem descibed

in the KB -update/patch. SP3 is completely unnecessairy.

Well I don't have a problem , so I don't need to patch. I haven't updated since 2009-2010.

I have many external drives and 2 internal drives , and my experience is that these are fickle things , so I do not mess with formating updates. Losing a 2 TB drive is a sh-tload of time wasted.

My xp sp2 machine is 9 years old and in excellent condition , as in like the day I bought it.

[Chicog]

I'm not gonna try exFAT. My XP sp2 is stable and adding another formating seems risky.

If an update of 2009 imposed a risk, it would be well known I guess.,

Thread result/conclusion surprises me,

Your main risk is SP2.

Really not updated to SP3????

Oh not again ! Every update/patch has risks and changes stuff , changes that I don't want.

I have reviewed all of the sp3 patches and nearly none of them are needed. If you look up every KB on the windows site , microsoft itself says : only apply when needed or when you have the problem descibed

in the KB -update/patch. SP3 is completely unnecessairy.

Well I don't have a problem , so I don't need to patch. I haven't updated since 2009-2010.

I have many external drives and 2 internal drives , and my experience is that these are fickle things , so I do not mess with formating updates. Losing a 2 TB drive is a sh-tload of time wasted.

My xp sp2 machine is 9 years old and in excellent condition , as in like the day I bought it.

Good luck with that piece of insecure crap then.

[WhizBang]

Thank u for your answer;

Some friends and " Gogole is my friend " confirm that Win XP supports max 32 Gb SD cards ..

So it's normal my 64 Gb Sd cards cannot be recognised .

No no no. Windows XP only supports FAT32 and NTFS. FAT32 is crippled by Microsoft to a maximum of 32GB. You can format media greater than 32GB using FAT32 by using other programs though. But SDHC itself only goes to 32GB. Larger sizes are SDXC and use (usually) exFAT. Windows XP and earlier, do not support exFAT natively. Windows 7 and later have exFAT support built into the OS. Not sure about Vista.

However, you can add the exFAT support to Windows XP by downloading the driver from Microsoft. It should work just fine with any SD card reader that supports SDHC. My old Windows XP machines support SDXC cards when the exFAT driver is installed. I have 64, 128 and even 256GB SDXC cards I have formatted on my Windows XP machines.

[lostinisaan]

I'm not gonna try exFAT. My XP sp2 is stable and adding another formating seems risky.

If an update of 2009 imposed a risk, it would be well known I guess.,

Thread result/conclusion surprises me,

Your main risk is SP2.

Really not updated to SP3????

Oh not again ! Every update/patch has risks and changes stuff , changes that I don't want.

I have reviewed all of the sp3 patches and nearly none of them are needed. If you look up every KB on the windows site , microsoft itself says : only apply when needed or when you have the problem descibed

in the KB -update/patch. SP3 is completely unnecessairy.

Well I don't have a problem , so I don't need to patch. I haven't updated since 2009-2010.

I have many external drives and 2 internal drives , and my experience is that these are fickle things , so I do not mess with formating updates. Losing a 2 TB drive is a sh-tload of time wasted.

My xp sp2 machine is 9 years old and in excellent condition , as in like the day I bought it.

Good luck with that piece of insecure crap then.

Unbelievable that people are still using this buffalo dung.

[BuaBS]

Good luck with that piece of insecure crap then.

Unbelievable that people are still using this buffalo dung.

Now go and wash your sweaty , greasy fingers and go play with your touchscreen tiles...