I recently upgraded one of my laptops from Vista to Windows 7 and everything went smoothly except when I tried to insert an SD card in the memory slot and found out that it was not working. When I checked Device Manager in Control Panel, I saw that there was a “Mass Storage” device which had the exclamation sign, meaning it was not working properly. It is this that was causing the problem and I tried to update the driver through Control Panel but Windows was unable to do it.
I also tried one of the recovery CDs that I got from Toshiba but that didn’t work as well. So I started looking on the web for a mass storage device for my Toshiba A100 027 laptop but couldn’t find it. It’s not even listed on the Toshiba website and they usually have quite a lot of drivers for you to download just in case you need them. Anyway, I was lucky enough to stumble upon a forum which had a link to a driver which would solve the problem. Here’s the direct link to the driver for the SD card reader:
http://www.station-drivers.com/telechargement/texas%20instrument/TIPCI_xx21_xx12_02_2.0.0.8.exe
I am always skeptic of downloading .exe file (executables) as they may contain viruses/trojans but the above link is safe and works well on my laptop. After installing it, I was able to get the SD memory card reader to work properly again.
Hi, searching for a solution to this problem of my toshiba equium a100 running windows 7 & not recognising the sd card. I had hoped that finding your posting with the exe file would sort this out. I’ve downloaded it and run it, however, still not able to read the sd card: it doesn’t show up on othe organiser and the little light on the front edge of the laptop base doesn’t light up when a sd card is inserted. Any suggestions on how to fix would be much appreciated.
Just wanted to thank you, had the same problem and the driver solved my problem!!!
worked fine for satellite m100
thanks!!!