Using SD cards on Satellite M30-304

I have been trying to use an SD card for the first time. The capacity of this card is 2GB.
Having inserted the card and double clicked on this card in 'My Computer' a message came that the card was not formatted and would I like to do so. I chose to format and a message said 'this card cannot be formatted. When I right clicked on this card in 'My Computer' and chose the Toshiba Format SD Card option an Error message came up as Error code 0x0340FF00.
I also put an SD card containing files (from my Palm PDA) and tried to open it, but the message came back as 'this card is not formatted'.
Can anyone help me, please?
BDC

Hi
From my knowledge not all SD card sizes are supported.
Im not quote sure what max SD card size can be used in the M30 slot but possibly 2GB SD card is not compatible.
However, you said that you want to format the SD card but did you try to use the Toshiba SD Memory card format Utility?
Please check this!
All tools and drivers can be found on the Toshiba European driver page.
But note; M30 drivers have been moved to the Archive!

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