Question about high capacity (2GB) SD cards

duuuma

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My new Kingston 2GB SD card is being read by my laptop's card reader as only 980mb with only 542mb free space!

The card is formatted as FAT32 right now. I noticed my old 512mb card is formatted with FAT, but when I formatted this 2GB card with FAT, my image files were corrupt.

Is there something special I need to do with these high capacity memory cards before my laptop will read correctly?
 

RebateMonger

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Check into the ability of your particular SD card reader to read a 2GB card. For instance, some eMachine laptops had card readers that maxed out at 1GB.

I've put 2GB SD cards (actually, one SD and one Mini-SD) into my PDA and my cell phone without incident.
 

duuuma

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should these larger (2gb) SD cards be formatted as FAT32 or regular FAT?

when i stick it into my laptop's card reader, it prompts to me format, even though my camera worked fine with it.

when I pick FAT32 and format, then my camera (casio EX S600) can't read it

So then i format it as FAT, but then my camera doesn't allow me to use the fully capacity!