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Thread #136663 Message #3122296
Posted By: Bernard
26-Mar-11 - 07:02 PM
Thread Name: Tech: Memory cards.
Subject: RE: Tech: Memory cards.
Just a thought... is your PC standalone, or do you have more than one networked together with shared drives, and/or possibly one or more NAS devices?
A peculiarity with WinXP is that it will sometimes put a USB drive on the same drive letter as a Windows share. A way to fix it is to RIGHT click on 'My Computer' and select 'Manage'. Go into 'Disk Management' and find the drive (card) - usually easy to spot because it has a lot less capacity than the other drives, and FAT or FAT32. Right click on the drive and select 'Change Drive Letter and Paths', then select a drive letter high up in the alphabet, such as 'X', which won't clash - XP assigns drive letters 'lowest available' first, even if it isn't available!
Even if you don't have a network, 'Manage' will at least confirm whether the system is seeing the card or not.
There is also a chance that the card reader design is too old to be able to interpret the card, and a newer reader will solve the problem. There's a wide variety of SD and MMC cards - they are not all created equal!