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Old 01-02-2009
Mick Murphy
 

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RE: laptop card reader won't read memory cards
Have you tried this:
Click start>Computer>that particular drive letter>Right-click
it>Properties>Set up autorun options.
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Mad Mike


"Luis Ortega" wrote:

> I have a Dell studio laptop running Vista 32bit with a camera card
> reader built in, but when I insert a memory card in the slot it doesn't
> show up at all.
>
> When I plug it in, you can hear the sound of a usb device being
> recognized by windows, and the safely remove icon shows up on the
> desktop system tray, but the card doesn't appear in windows explorer. It
> shows up as a removable device in disk management but has no letter and
> if you try to format it, disk management report that there is an error
> and I should try restarting disk management or the computer (that
> doesn't work either).
>
> I suspect that there is a driver fault but I have reinstalled the memory
> card reader drivers and nothing seems amiss in device manager
>
> Can anyone please advise if this might be a hardware fault or if there
> is some setting or software that needs to be installed for the card
> reader to work correctly? What are the drivers that it needs?
>
> I reformatted the computer a while back and I installed all the device
> drivers but I may have missed some small patch setting to make the card
> reader work, although there are no warnings in device manager about
> non-functioning hardware.
>
> Thanks for any advice.
>

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