digital camera

[Bill H.]

Have a digital camer with USB.

Before, it worked in that after connecting and turning on, I got a drive
letter ("S:") in my computer, enabling me to see the pictures on the
camera's internal card.

Now, after not using for some time, I plug it in, and there is no drive
letter to select. The camera is recognized, and still shows up in device
mgr as "generic volume" but I can't figure out how to access this "generic
volume."

Works fine on another win98 computer.

I've all the current win2k patches, including SP4.

I have several attached hard disks, and on a network with MS F&PS, including
Novell. Yes, there are two free unassigned drive letters.

Thanks.

 

[David H. Lipman]

Get an external USB card reader for your memory card. SanDisk makes great ones including a
6 in 1 that can be used with a variety of memory cards/sticks. Just keep it plugged into
USB and remove memory card/stick from the camera and insert it into the reader.

Dave


| Have a digital camer with USB.
|
| Before, it worked in that after connecting and turning on, I got a drive
| letter ("S:") in my computer, enabling me to see the pictures on the
| camera's internal card.
|
| Now, after not using for some time, I plug it in, and there is no drive
| letter to select. The camera is recognized, and still shows up in device
| mgr as "generic volume" but I can't figure out how to access this "generic
| volume."
|
| Works fine on another win98 computer.
|
| I've all the current win2k patches, including SP4.
|
| I have several attached hard disks, and on a network with MS F&PS, including
| Novell. Yes, there are two free unassigned drive letters.
|
| Thanks.
|
| --
| Bill
|
|

 

[Andrew Morton]

There is a problem with SanDisk card readers if you ever need to recover files
(e.g. accidentally deleted) from a non-SanDisk card . I was told that part of
the functionality which is normally built in to a card reader is in SanDisk
cards; I assume that functionality is low-level access to the "disk". So I
changed to a generic card reader and was able to recover files (using
ImageRecall).

Andrew

 

[David H. Lipman]

Andrew:

All removable media are defaulted to not recover deleted files. This is the norm, unless
using specific utilities, for; 1.44MB flop's., memory card readers, ZIP, LS-120,
Bernoulli, etc.

Dave

| There is a problem with SanDisk card readers if you ever need to recover files
| (e.g. accidentally deleted) from a non-SanDisk card . I was told that part of
| the functionality which is normally built in to a card reader is in SanDisk
| cards; I assume that functionality is low-level access to the "disk". So I
| changed to a generic card reader and was able to recover files (using
| ImageRecall).
|
| Andrew
|

 

[Andrew Morton]

All removable media are defaulted to not recover deleted files. This is the
norm, unless

using specific utilities, for; 1.44MB flop's., memory card readers, ZIP, LS-120,
Bernoulli, etc.

That's why I mentioned ImageRecall (www.imagerecall.com - I have no connection
to them). A photographer had accidentally erased a couple of jobs from a CF
memory card, so recovering them saved him half a day of going back out to
re-take the pictures. I was going to give up with ImageRecall because it just
kept giving errors when trying to "look" at the card, but I 'phoned their tech
support who immediately suggested that the problem was with trying to use a
SanDisk card reader. Another utility (I can't remember which) also could not
read the card. Of course, it may be that not all SanDisk card readers have that
feature; I was using the physically very solid (do not drop on toes) CF-only
reader.

Andrew