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I put a SD card into the SD reader on my Dell Latitude E6520 (Windows 7), but it isn't being read. I am not that familiar using SD cards, so I may be missing something obvious, but shouldn't it show up under My Computer in my "Devices With Removable Storage" section? What if the SD card was bad - would it still be recognized?

I Googled a bit and couldn't find anything too helpful.

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When you are new to a site, it is appropriate to read the faq first. – MDMarra Oct 22 '11 at 17:36
Thanks Mark! I appreciate the heads up! – MattW Oct 22 '11 at 18:05
If it was junk it could show up then not work properly in long term, or just not show up to begin with. really helps if the first SD card you get is from a 100% reliable source . Being new it helps to know what a good one would do first , vrses a Clone. Sometimes is seems that there are more fake cards than real :-) bing.com/… – Psycogeek Oct 22 '11 at 18:17
Ok ... holy crap this is embarrassing. It is an adapter, not an SD card. FML. – MattW Oct 22 '11 at 18:24
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Even an adaptor will show up drive letters, without having any cards inserted - it'll just ask you to insert a disk if you try and access any of them.

If you have network drives mapped then check in Disk Management to make sure that the adaptor/card are not showing up as an existing drive letter (happens fairly frequently). If there is a problem or error with the adaptor it may well be mentioned in here, also check Device Mananger.

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