OK. So I took my daughters laptop and downloaded the Garmin app. plugged in the GPS to set it up and when I got to the map update link it seen the SD card and said it was downloading the NA map to that, just like it used to. Yes it is a big map. its taking a while to download. just hope all works well when I`m done.
So I uninstalled all the Garmin programs on my laptop and I will re download them for the next update. I`m thinking there was some type of data corruption to the app. and maybe the driver!
I`ll let you know what happens.
Thanks again for the help.