Camera or USB? Wow this is wierd...

[Morituri-|-Max]

Ok Dk.. I am not sure if this is an XP USB software problem, or some wierd
digital camera SD stick thing.. anybody here ever run across this problem?

I have a digital camera with a 128MB SD stick in it. I took about 30 pictures
and when I hooked the camera up to the Printer Dock to transfer them via USB to
the kodak album in preparation for editing and/or printing it shows most of them
as corrupted.

When I have transferred them directly using the cable from the camera, then most
of the images are unreadable and others that are viewable look like a series of
strips made of different images mashed together horizontally..

The really truly wierd thing is that I can look at them on the camera itself and
they are all in perfect shape, and they can be printed from the dock perfectly..
the 4 quicktime videos I shot are all able to be transferred and they play on
the camera and computer perfectly..

Arg, could this be USB related? Up till now I haven't had any problems, one
kodak faq says if the battery gets low while taking pictures then they can be
corrupted, yet still the images look absolutely normal on the camera itself...

Anybody out there ever have this problem? As soon as the stores open after
christmas break I am going to buy a media reader so I can see if direct transfer
from that works...

Thanks for any info.

 

[Richie NY]

Quick question how many times have you used this USB
stick?

You can hook it up again on the docking station and when
it appears as the new drive letter attempt to Defrag the
stick, this may help. There probably is some corrupted
data on the stick.
Try selecting all files and copying them to a New Folder
on your desktop after defragging.
If you cannot retrieve this data successfully you can
salvage the stick for future use by formatting it, of
course this is your last ditch effort, as this will wipe
it clean. Memory sticks work just like hard drives and
need similar maintenance.

 

[Morituri-|-Max]

Quick question how many times have you used this USB
stick?

About 4 times...

You can hook it up again on the docking station and when
it appears as the new drive letter attempt to Defrag the
stick, this may help. There probably is some corrupted
data on the stick.
Try selecting all files and copying them to a New Folder
on your desktop after defragging.
If you cannot retrieve this data successfully you can
salvage the stick for future use by formatting it, of
course this is your last ditch effort, as this will wipe
it clean. Memory sticks work just like hard drives and
need similar maintenance.

Well finally it seems to be fixed.. I removed the stick.. tried to get a media
reader to read it, but the stupid media reader keeps plopping 4 new drives into
my computer when I plug it in to the USB port, but for some reason XP keeps
clearing them and reloading the drive letters, and does this over and over, but
never settles down and keeps them active..

However, after that happened, I put the stick back in the camera, and the
transfer worked perfectly.. I guess something in the camera got messed up and it
was screwing up the transfer out of the camera somehow

Now my latest problem just cropped up.. I unplugged my maxtor one touch hard
drive in the process of checking the different USB ports, and now when I plug it
back in, I get the boingy boingy sounds of the USB connected announcement, but
Windows XP never displays the drive in my computers... I don't know if I am
having some kind of drive assignment conflict or what... scratching my head..
wondering if I need to do a XP Repair.

ARG!