What is wrong with my SD 2 Gb memory card?

Question

I believe there is something wrong with my SD 2 Gb memory card I bought. I took some videos with my Canon PowerShot SD 550 7.1 and I connected the camera via usb cable that came with the cam and used the cam software to try and download the videos but it wont download them. The screen on the camera goes black continuously. Usually it will show the progress of the download onscreen of my comp. It will only download the photos I have. The software recognizes there is a video there , but it wont download it onto my computer. If I try to manually click and D L just the video I get a messsage saying the camera has lost detection, try checking the cable for errors or such. I know it cant be the cable because If I swap my 512 mb card into the camera, I can download videos/photos easily. When I first used the 2 GB card I was able to download 4 videos then one day it stopped downloading videos. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling of the program and it still does the same.

Answer 1

you maybe do what to spead money but if you are willing u can get a memory card reader so im saying u will take out your memory card put it in a reader then put it back in your camera

Answer 2

Get a card reader, they are cheap and very handy to use. You would put the card from your camera in the reader and open the reader as a drive in MyComputer, then also open MyDocuments/MyVideos and drag and drop your video files  into the MyVideos file.

Answer 3

You may have an incompatibility problem with the SD card and your camera, some won't work with the cheaper SD cards,and they don't have the high speed chip necessary to do the job. One way around this is buy a small USB plug-in device, you can load any SD card into this, and plug it directly into your USB port on your PC, and it will download it all. They're about $20, and I bought one at Wal-mart. Handy to have, too, you can carry it around like a Jumpdrive ( basically it IS one, with a removable memory ) and plug it into other PCs and laptops without lugging the camera. COuld also be you might have bent a pin in the camera by inserting the card wrong, if you did it backwards, it bends the one end pin. Might want to look at your camera slot, and see if you can see the pins and see if one looks weird. It may not go into the slot at all backwards ( mine doesn't ), but you might want to use a pin-light and look down into the camera SD slot to check to see if any lint, or crud found it's way in there. Maybe baby brother stuffed something in there. :)

Good luck!

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