Problem with camera SD card?

The SD card in my camera has pictures on it (to state the obvious). The camera can read it but none of my computers could read it or copy the files.

So I walk down to rite aid to try it in their photo machine to see if it could read it...well I got there and theres a peice of paper taped to it sayin' it's out of order, so I walk to Duane Reade and they don't have a photo machine (that I could find anyways, I checked both floors)...so I said fuck it and went home.

Finally the idea came to me that I should boot up Backtrack Linux and what do ya know I was able to copy all of the files to another USB stick...and windows has no problems with the files now. I uploaded some of them to my albums here.

So, obviously the files aren't corrupted...what could be the problem? Why can't windows access the files on the SD card? Should I just reformat the card? Would that solve the problem?

 

what if you insert the card before booting your machine ?

 

didn't try that, I got it taken care of, but it shouldn't have to be like that? What do you think is wrong, would reformatting the card fix it?

 

ive heard about windows PCs having troubles hot-mounting sd cards ... but yes go for a format (in windows), it's pretty much all you can do, I believe. at times i experienced odd behaviors with some usb pen drives and HAL automount...

 

Yeah, I'll just format it fat32 in windoze or w/e and if I still got problems with it I'll toss it in the can and buy another...it's not like these things are expensive or anything (it was only 16gig)

Or maybe I'll fuck with it more if I just feel like it cuz I'm bored

I'll try inserting it before I boot and see if it mounts at boot time if that makes any difference...for some reason I doubt it but I'm curious?

 

...so? any good?

 

It seems windows does have issues with hot-mounting SD cards! At least it did before I reformatted it. Did a full format (no quick format option) in windows. Formatted it fat32 with the allocation unit size set to auto and now everything seems to work fine!

 

not a big issue after all. i also had a 16gb stick which couldn't automount under Suse linux on the laptop (had to type in mount as root), but did fine under debian. a reformat cleared the issues.