If you wish to insert an SD card into your Dell laptop, it’s almost as easy as putting in a USB flash disk into a USB slot. You need to put the disk in a way that’s properly oriented to the SD card reader. Learn more about this topic down below.
How to Insert SD Card in Dell Laptop
If you have a MicroSD, you need to insert it into an SD adapter in order for it to fit into an SD slot on your Dell notebook computer. Otherwise, if you have a standard-sized SD card, just skip to the SD slot insertion.
Look for the SD slot on your Dell laptop. It’s usually on the side of the Dell laptop. Meanwhile, on most Dell tower desktops, they have it at the front. Insert your SD into the slot the same way you inserted the MicroSD card to the SD adapter. Carefully, with the metal pins oriented properly, and don’t force it.
Once the SD card or adapter is inserted properly into the SD slot, the computer should automatically recognize the card and its contents, reading it like a USB flash drive.
How to Insert a MicroSD into an SD Adapter
Place the SD adapter and your MicroSD card in such a way that the label faces up and the metal pins face down. Insert the SD card into the adapter with that orientation.
Don’t force the card into the slot. If there’s resistance, reorient the card and try to insert it again. You can damage the pins by forcing your MicroSD into the SD adapter improperly like a square peg unto a round hole.
The SD adapter allows your MicroSD card to fit into a standard SD slot found in most notebook or workstation PCs.
Where is the SD Slot on Your Dell Laptop?
The SD slot could be behind the panel with the Dell logo onto it for most desktops. However, for most Dell laptops, it should be beside the slots for USB and HDMI ports, especially if it’s a particularly small or thin laptop with no slots at the back.
The Dell Netbook has loads of side slots and ports available, like multiple ports for USB, an HDMI-Out port for display connections, and so forth. For example, you can locate the SD slot of the Dell Mini 9 on the left-hand side of it, near the USB portrs.
The slot might get labels such as “SD/.MS” or “SD.MS/Pro.MMC” for good measure.
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What to Expect of an SD or MicroSD Card
A MicroSD card is about the size of a literal thumbnail but it can store thousands or even hundreds of thousands of files such as videos, pictures, music, game save files, and outright applications. The SD card is larger and is mostly used on laptops and PCs as well as digital cameras.
Meanwhile, the smaller MicroSD card is mostly used as storage media for handheld devices such as smartphones and tablets. Both regular SD cards and microSD cards use the same technology—Secure Digital or SD.
In Summation
An SD or MicroSD card can store thousands of picture and music files, maybe even millions if you pick up the terabyte version. Most desktops or laptops have built-in SD cad slots for SD memory cards. They’ve been around at least since 1999.
References:
- “How do you insert a SD card into a Dell laptop?“, SluiceArtFair.com, November 27, 2019
- Amber Viescas, “How to Put a MicroSD in a Dell Computer“, TechWalla.com, Retrieved May 13, 2022