T430 Card reader seems to be hung

Hi!
I have an 8GB SD card which I used to read and copy from with no issues until a little while ago.
lately, it seems to be not working as expected.
the drivers were reinstalled (although I wasn't seeing code 22, I followed the instructions) but it wasn't fixed.
I see the devices in the device manager. everything seems to work.
I can also see a drive created in "my computer" but when I try to open it, it won't open and after a little while I get the message "please insert a disk into Removable Disk (H".
any idea how to solve it?
other card readers (on W530, on Asus laptop) can read this card. camera is working with it as usual.
thanks!

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T430s card reader problem

Apologize if this has been answered before, did read many community posts and may have missed it.
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When the card is removed I get the "device removed" sound & the Ricoh disappears from IDE ATA/ATAPI.
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Edited the T420 .inf file to include the proper hardware ID of my card reader.
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Really don't want to send this back under warranty unless absolutely necessary.
Any thoughts would be most appreciated.
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I had the same problem. I have a T530 which I re-installed from scratch and could not find the driver for the "Base System Device" which shows up in Device Manager. Finally, I discovered that the SD driver required is:
RICOH_SD_DRIVER_6.13.3.4_X64
Go to this page "http://www.odrivers.com/2012/05/sony-vaio-vpceb4e1ewi-driver-win7-64.html" and look for the Ricoh SD Bus Host Adapter Driver.
There is no Installer so go into Device Manager (DEVMGMT.MSC) and look for either (a) Base System Device as an unknown device or (b) Under IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers, look for the Ricoh PCIe SDXC/MMC Host Controller. Right-click and select Update Driver Software. Then "Browse My Computer for driver software" and point to the path where you expanded the ZIP file you downloaded.
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T430s SDHC card reader not working

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USB card reader problem with T430 laptop (Win 8)

I have a Thinkpad T430, running Windows 8 with 16G memory.
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Hi all,
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Hey 127kmph,
If the driver for the media card reader doesn't work,
I found your computer in the personal system reference and saw you actually have no Smartcard reader. But you do have the 4-1 media card reader. Which is specific to all machine types of the T430s.
With a little more investigating I found out that
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Here is the link to the driver. Which this driver supports XP, Vista, and Windows 7.
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS014960
Thank you NINE.
Hope this works out for you
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Hello,
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