SD Card Format (Nuvi 760)

Last evening I went to copy some music from my computer to the SD Card
in my Nuvi 760. The copy operation failed with the problem being that
the card is formatted as FAT and my Vista machine is NTFS. The only
solution I can see would be to copy the files off the card and onto my
hard drive, reformat the card as NTFS and then copy the files back.

The question is, can the 760 then read the music files?

Thanks,

J

On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 11:24:22 -0400

Hi
Not ntfs, try formating as fat32 and you should be ok. Just tired it on
my Nuvi 260 and it could read some jpegs stored on it.

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On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 11:24:22 -0400, jeffinputnam wrote:


Vista being installed on an NTFS formatted hard disk should have nothing
whatsoever to do with being able to read a FAT formatted SD card. You
have some other problem. I don't know what is, but it's nothing to do
with the format of the hard disk.

I doubt the Nuvi can read NTFS formatted SD cards, even assuming you know
which version of NTFS you are using.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS
states that all version of NTFS are not even compatible with each other.

Also, as noted in the TomTom/MS patent spat, licensing FAT32 with long
file name support and/or NTFS costs money. IIRC FAT and/or FAT32 without
LFN support is free. I doubt very much that Garmin will license NTFS
code for their bottom end SatNavs for little to no extra benefit.

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On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 11:24:22 -0400, jeffinputnam


Dave G is right on this. You have a problem that has nothing to do
with the type of format on the SD card. Your Vista OS system can read
1.3 meg floppies (if you had a 3 1/2" drive installed) and they are
FAT. I suspect that the SD card has gotten scrambled some how or
other. Try to format the card as FAT in your machine, copy a jpg or
mp3 file to it and see if your 760 can read it. You may just have a
bad card.

Jack j

jeffinputnam wrote:


Reformatting the SD card as FAT32 did the trick.

Thanks.

J