SD-card is not recognized: to solve the Windows Problem

Each of the following approaches can solve the Problem. Just follow the steps in the order specified.

• Manual Start: Open my computer by pressing for example the keys [Windows] + [E]. Click here for all removable disk twice to open it. With luck, only the automatic Start is disabled.
• SD card: Remove the SD card from your Computer and clean the contacts. This works best with a micro fiber cloth. To the Emergency, but also a slightly damp Finger and a T-Shirt.
• SD Slot: Clean, in addition to the SD Slot, you insert the SD Kart. Here you can remove only a few Times firmly to blow to dust.
• PC to switch: There is not certain is whether the SD card or the Computer is causing the error, you should use the card on another PC and plugging it in. The SD card is detected there, follow the instructions in the next paragraph.
• Formatting: Windows Shows that the SD card must be formatted before you can use it, there's no way around it. Then click on the Button "Format".

Follow these instructions only if you are sure that the Problem is not in the SD card, but on the PC. Before that, you can try to connect the SD card via a camera connected to the PC.

1. Simultaneously press the keys [Windows] + [R], so that the command "Run" will open.
2. Type devmgmt here".msc" and confirm with "OK". Then, the device Manager starts.
3. Are you looking for in the list of installed Hardware to the SD-card reader.
4. Right-click, you can update the "driver" or uninstall to install it again.
5. Note: you can Find the drivers in the list does not in itself mean that this is not installed. However, you should be looking for in this case the appropriate driver and install.