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Paul Randall
Hi,
My problem is with my sister's computer, which has slots at the front of the
computer to insert flash memory cards to transfer data/pictures to or from
the card. On booting up, each slot shows up as a removable drive letter.
with a total size of zero bytes in 'My Computer'. On inserting a flash
memory card, the card's 'drive label' shows up in 'My Computer', just as it
should, and stuff can be read from and written to the flash card the same as
with any other drive. Prior to removing the flash card, we go through the
procedure of right clicking the 'safely remove drive' icon it the tray and
left click the 'Safely Remove Hardware' text that pops up. This causees a
'Safely Remove Hardware' window to open which displays one USB Mass Storage
Device in its list of USB Mass Storage Devices list. (To me, this means
that the flash card slots are configured similarly to external USB
multi-flash card readers). We highlight that USB device and click the stop
button. This pops up a 'Stop a Hardware device' window with a list of
things including specific drive letters assigned to the flash card slots.
We highlight the specific drive letter for the flash card we want to remove
and click OK, and a 'Safe to remove hardware' text message pops up, at which
time we remove the flash card. At this time the drive letters for each of
the card reader slots disappear from the 'My Computer' window.
Our problem is that all the flash card slots are maybe powered off when we
click that last OK. None of the flash card slots will read any flash cards
we plug in until we reboot the computer. Device manager shows a yellow
exclaimation mark in that USB device. Right clicking, it's property window
shows "Windows cannot use this hardware device because it has been prepared
for "safe removal", but it has not been removed from the computer. (Code 47)
To fix this problem, unplug this device from your computer and then plug it
in again."
Since the reader slots together are one USB device hardwired into the
computer, it cannot be unplugged and then plugged in again.
With an external multislot flash card reader, the USB port is 'reset' or
something when we unplug the reader, so it is relatively easy to read one
card after another. With the built-in card reader slots, we have to reboot
each time we want to read another card.
Question: How can we 'safely' read a bunch of flash cards without rebooting
between each one?
Thanks for any help you can give me.
-Paul Randall
My problem is with my sister's computer, which has slots at the front of the
computer to insert flash memory cards to transfer data/pictures to or from
the card. On booting up, each slot shows up as a removable drive letter.
with a total size of zero bytes in 'My Computer'. On inserting a flash
memory card, the card's 'drive label' shows up in 'My Computer', just as it
should, and stuff can be read from and written to the flash card the same as
with any other drive. Prior to removing the flash card, we go through the
procedure of right clicking the 'safely remove drive' icon it the tray and
left click the 'Safely Remove Hardware' text that pops up. This causees a
'Safely Remove Hardware' window to open which displays one USB Mass Storage
Device in its list of USB Mass Storage Devices list. (To me, this means
that the flash card slots are configured similarly to external USB
multi-flash card readers). We highlight that USB device and click the stop
button. This pops up a 'Stop a Hardware device' window with a list of
things including specific drive letters assigned to the flash card slots.
We highlight the specific drive letter for the flash card we want to remove
and click OK, and a 'Safe to remove hardware' text message pops up, at which
time we remove the flash card. At this time the drive letters for each of
the card reader slots disappear from the 'My Computer' window.
Our problem is that all the flash card slots are maybe powered off when we
click that last OK. None of the flash card slots will read any flash cards
we plug in until we reboot the computer. Device manager shows a yellow
exclaimation mark in that USB device. Right clicking, it's property window
shows "Windows cannot use this hardware device because it has been prepared
for "safe removal", but it has not been removed from the computer. (Code 47)
To fix this problem, unplug this device from your computer and then plug it
in again."
Since the reader slots together are one USB device hardwired into the
computer, it cannot be unplugged and then plugged in again.
With an external multislot flash card reader, the USB port is 'reset' or
something when we unplug the reader, so it is relatively easy to read one
card after another. With the built-in card reader slots, we have to reboot
each time we want to read another card.
Question: How can we 'safely' read a bunch of flash cards without rebooting
between each one?
Thanks for any help you can give me.
-Paul Randall