SD card stopped working! any help greatly appreciated

[markbigears]

Hi guys, have a Sansdisk genuine 1GB extreme 3 card that has worked a dream for 6 months. Tonight I shot some piccies on it from my camcorder (jpegs) and inserted the card into my laptop and now it dosent recognise the card, in fact it locks the computer up until I eject it. Placed it back in the camcorder and it reads the jpegs fine. I then formatted the SD card but the laptop is not playing ball. The only thing I have unistalled and changed on the laptop is an Installshield driver which i was messing about with whilst i tried to install Ghost 10. Would this be the cause? Have another SD card that works fine. Any help greatly appreciated.
Best regards, mark

Edited by markbigears on Sunday 13th May 00:16

[ThePassenger]

That's... freaky.

The card that works in Windows does it also work in the camcorder?
I'd suggest cleaning the contacts of the SD card with IPA, it might well be just dust or wear.
Perhaps reinstalling the drivers for the card reader as well, it couldn't hurt to try. I can't seriously see tinkering with InstallShield doing anything to bugger them up but you never know.

[markbigears]

yup, works in the camcorder no problem, also another SD card i have, works ok in the laptop.

[tycho]

Are you using a card reader or does the laptop have a built in one? If it is built in then try and use an sd card reader as your integrated reader could be shot.

[markbigears]

laptop has inbuilt card reader, and as my other card works fine, i'm really stumped as to whats up