Lost card readers after restore

[Eagle Eye]

Hi y'all,

I recovered from a complete and utter crash of my hard drive. It's a
getting old HP Pavilion, so I don't have the XP CD, just a partition
on the C drive from which you can recover the OS, losing everything
else.

I use Acronis as my backup. When I restored to a new drive I lost all
of my card readers, i.e., SD card reader, etc.. They used to show up
in windows explorer, but they're not there anymore.

Anyone have an idea as to how about getting them back?

Thanks!
Eagle Eye

 

[smlunatick]

Hi y'all,

I recovered from a complete and utter crash of my hard drive. It's a
getting old HP Pavilion, so I don't have the XP CD, just a partition
on the C drive from which you can recover the OS, losing everything
else.

I use Acronis as my backup. When I restored to a new drive I lost all
of my card readers, i.e., SD card reader, etc.. They used to show up
in windows explorer, but they're not there anymore.

Anyone have an idea as to how about getting them back?

Thanks!
Eagle Eye

Most card readers require a USB connection. Do you have any USB
adapter showing up in Device Manager?

 

[Eagle Eye]

Most card readers require a USB connection. Do you have any USB
adapter showing up in Device Manager?

No, there is nothing showing up as not functioning.
I suspect the system thinks they are something else.
I have these new 'HDI' thingies.
I have no idea what they are (maybe it was HCI - I can't remember).
There's 4 of them that just might be my card readers.

Eagle Eye

 

[smlunatick]

No, there is nothing showing up as not functioning.
I suspect the system thinks they are something else.
I have these new 'HDI' thingies.
I have no idea what they are (maybe it was HCI - I can't remember).
There's 4 of them that just might be my card readers.

Eagle Eye- Hide quoted text -

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You mean: HID -- Human Interface Device. These are keyboards, mices
or game controllers (joysticks and joypads etc.)

HCI -- I believe that this stands for Host Control Interface --
Windows analog modem.

You still would need to reset the USB controller by removing all of
them and restarting Windows Xp.

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi,

Check with the manufacturer of card reader(s) for a software driver.

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org