SD card showing error on Laptop - Help.

Hi there.

When I insert an SD card into the slot in my laptop, I get a blue screen and an error message saying that it has to restart.   

As far as I can tell the SD card isn't corrupted, as it works in our camera, and i've tried 2 or 3 cards with the same result.

The only thing I can think of, after a bit of googling, is that the Laptop has lost the 'Driver' for the SD card.   Acer Aspire 5750.

Does that sound about right, and if so how do I get it back?

We had the hard drive replaced in 2021 for an SSD and I haven't had need to use the SD slot since then, but I found an old card with some old photos on, so want to upload them.

Could the SD Driver have got wiped during that process, even though most of our data was recovered from the failing drive.   We've used the CD/DVD drive since then without issue.

Many thanks in advance....but please don't be too techie.   ;)
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