Yet another MicroSD scenario

[greygabe]

So I promise I searched around for this exact scenario before posting - if anyone has seen another thread exactly like this please link it

I have an 8525 that does not recognize the MicroSD in file explorer, there is no application that sees it, and the computer does not see it in WMDC. The MicroSD works in another Hermes, so it's not the card itself. Is it common for the MicroSD hardware to stop working and is there anything to do with it?

[Lancealot]

Greetings Greygabe. You may want to try a couple of troubleshooting steps to determine whether the card and/or the Hermes are at fault here.
You should try to format the card in your Hermes. Take a look at the program that I've attached called Storage Tools. It's a handy application capable of defragmentation, storage card repair and formatting of your microSD card. Give the format a whirl and let us know how ya do (the file system and cluster size won't make a difference since we're just trying to determine if the card can be seen and it's contents manipulated by the machine).
If the program fails to recognize the card, then you may want to try another SD card so as to pinpoint the potential cause of failure which in this case may be the microsd card reader in your Hermes.
It's also possible that the version of the Windows Mobile OS that you're running doesn't have the patch applied to it to allow the reading of high capacity Micro SDHC. If this is the scenario that we're in, then you may want to consider upgrading so as to take advantage of that feature.
Please let us know what rom you are currently running (Settings -> About -> OS version & Settings -> Device Information -> ROM Version) and the make/model and capacity of the card itself.