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Posted by elpolloloco
SD card not recognized

Hi! I have a Nuvi250 and I just bought a SD card to put Mexico maps on it. My computer reads the SD card alright but the Nuvi doesn't! I also have a Nuvi350 and it can read it's SD card just fine. Any ideas? I tried to download the Mexico maps (1.25 gig) on the Nuvi internal memory but it says it is too big...hence the SD card! Can I create more space on the Nuvi, paste the Mexico maps and foget about the SD card? Thanks for your help!

Posted by elpolloloco
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ok, I just put the card from the 350 into the 250 and...it doesn't recognize it either! Is there a problem with the 250 unit??

Posted by william.beck
sd card

by the looks of things the 250 is playing up Could be the card capacity may be too big for the 250?

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Posted by Mark Sartor
Re: sd card

generalstuff wrote:
william.beck wrote:
by the looks of things the 250 is playing up Could be the card capacity may be too big for the 250?


I would suspect the SD card and its compatibility with the Garmin. I had a 4 GB Sandisk card which would read elsewhere but not in my Nuvi. I realised after a while that the plastic body of the card was a little thinner than the others I had. I put a few layers of tape on thee back to thicken it up and it works fine now.


THIS!!! Put a couple layers of tape on the tiny card, and it fit more snugly, and now my Garmin 50 will recognize the card! WOW !! Brilliant! Thanks! :D :D

Posted by Mark Sartor
Re: memory card

I forgot to add that I also named the memory card "GARMIN", as someone suggested, so that may have helped.

Posted by Daedalos
Re: For me, using ExFat was the trick

Anonymous wrote:
For my Nüvi 200 and a 8 GB SD card, what actually worked was to reformat it to ExFAT, and _not_ FAT32. Kind of strange, but it seems to work now...


Of all the suggestions, this one worked for me! Format to ExFat. I thought it was a long shot but worked like a charm.
Thank you.

Garmin



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