Saturday, 15 March 2014

Can't read 32 Gb SD Card with Ricoh Reader on Lenovo ThinkPad W520, T430s, and others

I had lots of trials and errors with this, but here is the solution for Windows 7 x64. Please do all the experiments with clean SD-card, or you might loose your data on it! Just believe, if you fail at one of the steps, then you'll loose your data.

  1. Google for Ricoh_Card_Reader_2.25.17.01, install and reboot. Official Lenovo's http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS028931 simply don't fit, and even drivers for T431s http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS034692 won't fit, they are 2.14 only, very obsolete.
  2. After insertion of your SD-card, go to Device Manager, locate your "Disk drive" and set "Better performance" instead of "Quick removal". Otherwise you will have terrible lags and fails while opening the card. If you still have lags, try deactivating your security software, especially Microsoft Security Essentials.
  3. Also check that you have "Integrated Smart Card Reader" in "Smart card readers" , but not some default device. If not, please update the corresponding driver online just from Device Manager. Otherwise you may find your data on the SD-card damaged!
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