TomTom SD card

Original Poster

2,902 posts

249 months

Monday 14th January 2008

I bought a Tom Tom one for one of our engineers who has now left. He returned the Tom Tom but with no SD card. Is the card specific to the unit ? ie does it have Tom Tom data on it or will any SD card work ? Have tried new 1G and 512M cards but the unit doesn’t seem to like those. Has the former employee run off with all the important data or do I need to press the reset button ? I have all the rest of the pack, CD, Instructions leads etc but can't see anything of help there.

Original Poster

2,902 posts

249 months

Monday 14th January 2008

Think I have now deduced that the maps were on the missing SD card, so to get it going I need to buy another map. The question now is if I buy a downloadable one will it install on a blank card or does it have to be specially formatted for the Tom Tom ?

andygo

6,825 posts

256 months

Tuesday 15th January 2008

Got mine working again by copying the data onto an sd card borrowed from my digi camera. Format, copy and paste.

Original Poster

2,902 posts

249 months

Tuesday 15th January 2008

Andy, Do I understand this right ? You formatted the card in your camera, then it worked in Tom. I do seem to remember that a camera I have somewhere has a card format function. I fact it pops up on the PC as a USB drive.

andygo

6,825 posts

256 months

Wednesday 16th January 2008

I copied the files from a working tomtom go sd card from a colleauges unit onto my pc. I then copied the files onto the spare sd card (which I had formatted under windows)and hey presto! It worked.

When you copy the files from the good sd card, the pc tries by default to put them into a folder called 'tom tom/H drive' or similair, with H being the card reader slot. When you copy bsck to the new sd card drill down 1 level and copy all the files in their original file format.

IIRC the files take up about 213mb

Original Poster

2,902 posts

249 months