Storage card - large

[Guest Confucious]

Got my 4Gb SD card and put it in my card reader attached to my PC - went to format it and it said it was only 1Gb (about 980Mb). My initial thought was that I'd been sent a 1Gb card even though it said 4Gb.

I put it in my Universal and lo and behold - it shows 3813.53Mb ;)

Now I need to find a (cheap) card reader than can recognise large cards.

Under memory my card is showing 3022.96Mb free which is about right (it will soon fill up - wikipedia was a 769Mb download!) but when I go into messaging-> tools ->options -> storage is show -1098788Kb free!

Don't you love it :P

[Guest Confucious]

Update:

Transfering large files over AS doesn't work. WM5Storage came to the rescue - until I can find a card reader that can read large cards it at least allows me to transfer large files...

BUT

I removed my card yesterday to show someone and now it doesn't work! I wasn't writing anything to the card when I removed it so I'm not sure what's gone wrong but all my programs are on it so my phone won't start properly. I use pocket informant which is on my card so I can't access my contacts now - oh goody!

The card can be read and written to by my friends Exec but when I put it in mine it just hangs.

I now need to find a card reader to copy everything off the card so I can reformat it but this seems easier said than done.

Does anyone know of a card reader capable of reading large SD cards?

[Guest Confucious]

I managed to back my card up using WM5 storage, reformatedt the card , copied everything back and it still didn't work.

A hard reset later and all is fine ;)

[Guest Disco Stu]

So it were the Universal wot dunnit !

Is there something on the card that might have caused this ? I'm thinking along the lines of Today screen plugin or something that couldn't be accessed immediately by the device due to location. Any clues ?

[Guest Confucious]

Probably!

I've got all sorts of things on the card and am piling more on all the time so impossible to narrow it down unless it happens again.

I now have room for the full Lexipedia - at 712Mb you need a large card, but I'd put lots on and hadn't done a reset for a while so I guess I'll just have to be more careful in future.

[Guest Confucious]

In case anyone is interested the USB card reader from MobyMemory (cost