I'm using an sd card in a multicard reader. It'll read sdhc cards but I don't have one. I have a couple of sd cards and a cf card. I had the cf card boot up, but I already knew that it would because I have an adapter for a cf card that replaces the hard drive in a Lenovo.

My Hp mini 110-3001 tu (windows xp) cannot detect sd card since it was bought, I need to transfer photos from my sd card to my netbook, what do - 1874497. May 02, 2011  I have a similar model, HP Mini 110-3100 according to dmidecode. Everything seems to work fine, accept the SD card reader. I didn't see anything happen when I plugged in a card, and I don't see anything with fdisk.

What's funny to me is that the sd card accepts the format as a bootable device and Linux installs on it with no problem, just like the cf card, and I did both exactly the same way. But the sd card just won't be seen in the bios. I'm not gonna give up on this, I'll keep playing with it. What's neat is that the external card reader does show in the boot order and it will boot, at least with a cf card in it.

I didn't know that before. It shows up as a usb hard drive.

Driver Para Hp Deskjet 9300 Win 7 on this page. Does your reader show up in the bios without any card in it? Mine doesn't, only with a cf card in it. I can't get the sd card to boot from the internal, although as I understand it the Asus EEE and the Dell Mini can. They say to hit escape at the splash screen and it will give you the option to boot from sd. The card has to be in the slot at startup. That doesn't work for me. You're trying to boot with an sdhc card and I'm trying with an sd card and neither works.

I have had partial success though. I'm typing this from linux which is on an sd card in my external reader that I booted up with. It's now working the same as the cf card. So I can boot from the external card reader. I used the utility from the link above. The utility from linux didn't work. You download the iso and put it in the installer.

You should be able to switch ISO's and use the utility to install windows or whatever. But it did make it bootable. Lynda Php Mysql Essential Training Download more. At least now I know that you can boot from an sd card. Yours might be able to boot from an sd card.

I'm using an nc-4400. Mine just doesn't see the internal reader from the bios, maybe yours will. Sd cards are cheap. It would be worth a try.

Hi, I've investigated this theme and here's what I've found out: All storage devices which can be plugged in to usb must meet the USB Mass Storage standard. There exists a boot section of it.