sd card in my laptop

[MarilynRom0]

hey guys, so i have an compaq acer laptop and i keep trying to put my memory card in the slot and nothing happens

 

[watrhous]

hey guys, so i have an compaq acer laptop and i keep trying to put my memory card in the slot and nothing happens

your memory card, is it a USB Flash drive or is it a flat, square shaped SD Card?

 

[giantbucket]

Autorun is disabled, possibly. does file explorer show anything if you launch it manually (WinLogo + E)

 

[joex444]

Assuming you're putting an SD card into the SD card slot there's only a handful of possibilities:

1) The SD card isn't supported by the card reader. High capacity SD cards may have come out later than the reader/laptop and aren't supported.

2) The OS doesn't have drivers for the SD card reader. You put a card in, the reader might know that but the OS has no clue because the reader isn't communicating with the OS. All you'd need is the drivers which may be on the manufacturer's website. Likely the device shows up as an unknown USB device with a yellow triangle.

3) The card reader is disabled in the BIOS. Here the SD card reader doesn't even show up as an unknown device since it's effectively not installed. Turning it on in the BIOS and getting drivers for it should fix this.

 

[MarilynRom0]

hey guys, so i have an compaq acer laptop and i keep trying to put my memory card in the slot and nothing happens

your memory card, is it a USB Flash drive or is it a flat, square shaped SD Card?

 

[MarilynRom0]

the latter

 

[MarilynRom0]

Autorun is disabled, possibly. does file explorer show anything if you launch it manually (WinLogo + E)

 

[MarilynRom0]

nothing