Realtek Sony Card Reader 01BD - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Sony Card Reader 01BD is a USB Universal Serial Bus device. The developer of this driver was Realtek. USB/VID_054C&PID_01BD is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. How to manually install Realtek Sony Card Reader 01BD driver

1. Download the driver setup file for Realtek Sony Card Reader 01BD driver from the link below. This is the download link for the driver version 6.0.6000.0074 released on 2008-10-07.
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3. Start the driver installation file from a Windows account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is started then you will have to confirm the installation of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through the driver setup wizard, which should be quite straightforward. The driver setup wizard will analyze your PC for compatible devices and will install the driver.
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7. Restart your PC and enjoy the updated driver, as you can see it was quite smple.
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Realtek applied a digital signature to this driver.
Download size of the driver: 1566280 bytes (1.49 MB)
This driver was installed by many users and received an average rating of 4.9 stars out of 49868 votes.
This driver will work for the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 2000 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows Server 2003 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows XP 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows Vista 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 7 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8.1 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 10 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 32 bits

2. The easy way: using DriverMax to install Realtek Sony Card Reader 01BD driver

The most important advantage of using DriverMax is that it will setup the driver for you in just a few seconds and it will keep each driver up to date, not just this one. How can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's take a look!

1. Start DriverMax and press on the yellow button named ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to scan and analyze each driver on your PC.
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3. Take a look at the list of detected driver updates. Scroll the list down until you find the Realtek Sony Card Reader 01BD driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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