Touch Cannot detect external SD card - Page 2

Nalj · 08-12-2011, 12:48 PM

No luck. I think my Kobo is actually breaking my SD cards. They all work the first time I pop them in but any time I add books, etc it stops detecting th card permanently although I have tried reformatting the cards a number of times.

Toastedpine · 08-12-2011, 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Nalj

No luck. I think my Kobo is actually breaking my SD cards. They all work the first time I pop them in but any time I add books, etc it stops detecting th card permanently although I have tried reformatting the cards a number of times.

What did you use to reformat your card? The reformatting tool that comes with Windows doesn't wipe everything.

Nalj · 08-14-2011, 09:16 AM

Disk Utility on Mac. I don't have a Windows machine.

Paige Terner · 12-05-2011, 04:59 PM

This may have been long resolved, but...
I just purchased a Kobo Touch yesterday. Today I went to swap books from the SC card of my dead reader to a micro SD for the touch.

It wouldn't detect.

I had named it KOBO_MSD so I knew what it was when I popped the card in on the computer. I renamed it to KOBO (removed the underscore and MSD) and it picked up immediately.

It may be that the name assigned to the microSD card contains a character that the Kobo doesn't like, so it skips it.

At least, that resolved the issue for me.

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08-12-2011, 12:48 PM	#16
Nalj Member Posts: 13 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: Kobo touch	No luck. I think my Kobo is actually breaking my SD cards. They all work the first time I pop them in but any time I add books, etc it stops detecting th card permanently although I have tried reformatting the cards a number of times.

08-14-2011, 09:16 AM	#18
Nalj Member Posts: 13 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: Kobo touch	Disk Utility on Mac. I don't have a Windows machine.

12-05-2011, 04:59 PM	#19
Paige Terner Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Alberta, Canada Device: Kobo	This may have been long resolved, but... I just purchased a Kobo Touch yesterday. Today I went to swap books from the SC card of my dead reader to a micro SD for the touch. It wouldn't detect. I had named it KOBO_MSD so I knew what it was when I popped the card in on the computer. I renamed it to KOBO (removed the underscore and MSD) and it picked up immediately. It may be that the name assigned to the microSD card contains a character that the Kobo doesn't like, so it skips it. At least, that resolved the issue for me.