a HCSD or Hacked SD ..?

[aasoror]

I have recently got a 4 GB SD Card (ok I have to admit .. from ebay).
As I was looking for a non-HCSD 4 GB and couldnt find any on retails, any way..
Here is the thing, it came FAT-32 formated with 3.7 GB capacity, copying data went terribly slow (with provided reader and my own .. both non-HCSD), any data copied beyond 2 GB although written considerably faster but is always corrupted.

I guessed it might be hacked 2 GB SD, I tried low level formating, but no use, I still get 3.7 GB of unformatted space to be formated with only FAT-32 no matter what I do.

it worked in the axim, pocket mechanic saw it as XP sees it, I even tried low level formating from there and again got the same, ofcourse pocket mechanic wont let me format in anything less than FAT-32.

I thought about having a logical parition of 2 GB on the card after low level formating so it would function normally, or even changing the card size while formating from pocket mechanic, but then I thought of something else..

Is there any possibility this might be an HCSD and is causing this issues because of the incompatible readers, I never dealt with hacked cards before but I dont think they are this presistant, I think it would only take one low level formate to reveal the actual capacity. beside reading the uncorrupted data from the card is reasonably fast (within the 2 GB limits).

My question is, how would a HCSD card behave in an axim or in a non-HCSD card reader, is there any win XP fixes or drivers to download for enabling HCSD support ..?

Thanks so much if u made it this far,

Edit: Panasonic SD format utility couldn't formate the card although it detected it (says either incompatible card or reader)

[Juraj]

maybe you mean SDHC card?
HC - high capacity...and i think you need new card riader for it:)

I got a hacked/defective 4gb sd card on ebay. same side effects you are describing. It used to hold 2gb but now its only 50mb without corrupting. Don't bother trying to fix it because you will just be wasting your time. Don't store important data on it because it gets corrupted easily.

[aasoror]

Thanks for the tip Hoggie,
I will see what I can do to get any thing back from the seller (long shot)
Thanks any way again,