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colincctv
12th March 2004, 11:25 AM
I have just purchased a new sd card (128 mb made by lexar)but the pda refuses to see it as being there what could be the problem? my old card is a 64mb kodak which works fine.please help :(

Xant
12th March 2004, 11:30 AM
did you check the sd-card on pc with a sd-card reader ?

colincctv
12th March 2004, 11:33 AM
I have put it in my digital camera and it recognises and formats it instantly but i dont have a card reader

Xant
12th March 2004, 12:05 PM
i am no expert for sd-cards, but i suggest that you download some storage-format-tool for the xda, it might be, that this tool sees the sd-card.

Still the most promissing is to format it with a PC to FAT16 file-system, as it is possible that your camera did "something else"

colincctv
12th March 2004, 12:10 PM
can you point me in the direction for the software to do this please :)

Xant
12th March 2004, 12:58 PM
I know these two ( always try google : "flash format ppc" )

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/pocketpc/flashformat.html

http://www.cnetx.com/format/

both a shareware but with free trial.

colincctv
12th March 2004, 01:04 PM
Many thhanks i will give them ago and report back