Problems with Readyboost

Hi,

I have a compactflash card which I have been using with the Vista x32
ReadyBoost capability. Yesterday it suddenly stopped working and did
not show the ReadyBoost tab in the Properties manu. When I took the
card to another PC and reformatted it now shows the ReadyBoost tab but
says the device reader is not supported. Apart from reformatting the
card ast stated I have done absolutely zip to change the settings of
this PC so am at a loss to know what has happened.

Any ideas ?

Thanks,

Mike

it probably was formatted originally in fat32 and now you formated it in
ntfs


<> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have a compactflash card which I have been using with the Vista x32
> ReadyBoost capability. Yesterday it suddenly stopped working and did
> not show the ReadyBoost tab in the Properties manu. When I took the
> card to another PC and reformatted it now shows the ReadyBoost tab but
> says the device reader is not supported. Apart from reformatting the
> card ast stated I have done absolutely zip to change the settings of
> this PC so am at a loss to know what has happened.
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike

On Jan 7, 2:17*pm, "CBoom" <some...@microsoft.com> wrote:
> it probably was formatted originally in fat32 and now you formated it in
> ntfs

Hi,

It is formatted in FAT32 now, I don't remember what it was originally
formatted as.

Mike

CBoom <> wrote:

<n00b top-posting macro corrected>

>> I have a compactflash card which I have been using with the Vista x32
>> ReadyBoost capability. Yesterday it suddenly stopped working and did
>> not show the ReadyBoost tab in the Properties manu. When I took the
>> card to another PC and reformatted it now shows the ReadyBoost tab but
>> says the device reader is not supported. Apart from reformatting the
>> card ast stated I have done absolutely zip to change the settings of
>> this PC so am at a loss to know what has happened.
>>
>> Any ideas ?
>
> it probably was formatted originally in fat32 and now you formated it in
> ntfs

But ReadyBoost works on NTFS formatted flash drives, IIRC.

ss.

wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a compactflash card which I have been using with the Vista x32
> ReadyBoost capability. Yesterday it suddenly stopped working and did
> not show the ReadyBoost tab in the Properties manu. When I took the
> card to another PC and reformatted it now shows the ReadyBoost tab but
> says the device reader is not supported. Apart from reformatting the
> card ast stated I have done absolutely zip to change the settings of
> this PC so am at a loss to know what has happened.
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike

How much RAM do you have? If you have at least a gig of RAM then I would
just forget about using Readyboost. In most of the test it only improved
speed on system with less than a gig. If you want to speed up your
system get more RAM. It cheap right now.

gls858