re: card reader/ writer
Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6116 messages posted)
Ahh.. That's what I thought. I had the same problem with Canon cards with the card
reader that I was first sent.
The card reader doesn't have the format, the card does, so the reader may work with
a card that was formated by Windows, but not be able to read a card formated by the
camera. The formats aren't always compatible with Windows, even though it is/may
be a FAT format, there are some subtle differences. That's why the card is supposed
to be formatted in the camera not by Windows. At least that's what Canon used to
say. Don't know about the newest cameras. Haven't checked them. I know on mine,
Canon warns that reading is OK but writing to a card formated by the camera can destroy
it's contents and make it impossible for the camera to write to the card, and they
are correct. I've tried it. Pictures I transfered to the card from a computer were
not recognized by the camera and the camera wasn't able to use the card until it
was reformated by the camera.
You should probably check with both Canon and Nikon for any such warnings and do's
or don'ts concerning reading/writing on cards that are to be used for the cameras.
The reader that wasn't compatible was a Dane Electric. They then sent me an "Uno"
flash drive reader/writer that has worked well with XP Pro. It doesn't overcome
the write issue with cards formated in a camera though.
If you take a fresh card that hasn't been in a camera and it isn't recognized, or
can't be formated in Disk Management, then you have a bad reader, or an incompatible
reader with XP Pro IME, if you know for a fact that the cards are OK..
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- re: card reader/ writer (LV SHANG: Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 9:55 pm)
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