Memory Card Slots - How to Use?

(Running Vista Ultimate 64-bit, SP-2, IE-7, WM-6, classic
mode, dial-up, on an HP Pavilion desktop computer.)

Computer runs fine.

In the past I have transferred photos from my digital camera
via a cable to a USB port, and that process has worked fine.

A friend showed me how to remove the memory card (type: SD)
from my camera, and how to insert it into one of the cluster
of 4 different sized slots on my computer. When inserted a
small green light comes on, but nothing else happens. Based
on his experience with his computer, I was expecting, in
Windows Explorer, for a lettered disk to appear, listing the
photos on the memory card using the camera provided
numbers - but, as mentioned, nothing happened.

What is the next step after inserting the memory card and
noting that the green light is on?

Enlightenment appreciated.

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CWLee
Former slayer of dragons; practice now limited to sacred
cows. Believing we should hire for quality, not quotas, and
promote for performance, not preferences.

"CWLee" <> wrote in message
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>
> (Running Vista Ultimate 64-bit, SP-2, IE-7, WM-6, classic mode, dial-up,
> on an HP Pavilion desktop computer.)
>
> Computer runs fine.
>
> In the past I have transferred photos from my digital camera via a cable
> to a USB port, and that process has worked fine.
>
> A friend showed me how to remove the memory card (type: SD) from my
> camera, and how to insert it into one of the cluster of 4 different sized
> slots on my computer. When inserted a small green light comes on, but
> nothing else happens. Based on his experience with his computer, I was
> expecting, in Windows Explorer, for a lettered disk to appear, listing the
> photos on the memory card using the camera provided numbers - but, as
> mentioned, nothing happened.
>
> What is the next step after inserting the memory card and noting that the
> green light is on?
>
> Enlightenment appreciated.
>
> --
> ----------
> CWLee
> Former slayer of dragons; practice now limited to sacred
> cows. Believing we should hire for quality, not quotas, and
> promote for performance, not preferences.
>

On many of the multi-card readers I've seen the drive letter is already
assigned to memory card slot, so you may not see a new drive letter pop up
when you insert a memory card into them. Instead you should look for a
drive letter not assigned to your floppy drive, hard drive or optical drive
and try clicking on it.

Also - Try this approach...

With memory card inserted in its slot, Click Computer on the desktop and you
should see all available drives.
One of the unspecified drives, be it: "F" "G" "H" "I" for example should be
the drive holding your memory card. Click each one in turn to find the
drive associated with the memory card and you should then be able to open
files on the card.

Hope this works for you

Vic



"Tae Song" <> wrote in message
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> "CWLee" <> wrote in message
> news:e$1#Cr$...
>>
>> (Running Vista Ultimate 64-bit, SP-2, IE-7, WM-6, classic mode, dial-up,
>> on an HP Pavilion desktop computer.)
>>
>> Computer runs fine.
>>
>> In the past I have transferred photos from my digital camera via a cable
>> to a USB port, and that process has worked fine.
>>
>> A friend showed me how to remove the memory card (type: SD) from my
>> camera, and how to insert it into one of the cluster of 4 different sized
>> slots on my computer. When inserted a small green light comes on, but
>> nothing else happens. Based on his experience with his computer, I was
>> expecting, in Windows Explorer, for a lettered disk to appear, listing
>> the photos on the memory card using the camera provided numbers - but, as
>> mentioned, nothing happened.
>>
>> What is the next step after inserting the memory card and noting that the
>> green light is on?
>>
>> Enlightenment appreciated.
>>
>> --
>> ----------
>> CWLee
>> Former slayer of dragons; practice now limited to sacred
>> cows. Believing we should hire for quality, not quotas, and
>> promote for performance, not preferences.
>>
>
> On many of the multi-card readers I've seen the drive letter is already
> assigned to memory card slot, so you may not see a new drive letter pop up
> when you insert a memory card into them. Instead you should look for a
> drive letter not assigned to your floppy drive, hard drive or optical
> drive and try clicking on it.

"V Warwick" <> wrote

> With memory card inserted in its slot, Click Computer on
> the desktop and you should see all available drives.

My desktop is probably configured differently than yours, so
could you tell me how to find the item you mean by
"Computer"?

(I don't use the icons very much, and have deleted most of
them; I prefer to get to programs and such by clicking the
start button and then going into one of the menus provided.)

I can see all available drives via Windows Explorer, but
clicking on the apparently unused ones brings up a small
window saying to insert a disk in that drive - suggesting
that it is not recognizing anything there.

Thanks.

CWLee;1142911 Wrote:
> "V Warwick" <v.warwick06@newsgroup> wrote
> > > >
> > > With memory card inserted in its slot, Click Computer on
> > > the desktop and you should see all available drives. > >
>
> My desktop is probably configured differently than yours, so
> could you tell me how to find the item you mean by
> "Computer"?
>
> (I don't use the icons very much, and have deleted most of
> them; I prefer to get to programs and such by clicking the
> start button and then going into one of the menus provided.)
>
> I can see all available drives via Windows Explorer, but
> clicking on the apparently unused ones brings up a small
> window saying to insert a disk in that drive - suggesting
> that it is not recognizing anything there.
>
> Thanks.


[image: http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/i...TG19/Comp.png]


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whs

If your camera uses an SDHC card and your computer has only an older SD
card reader the reader will not recognise the card. You will need a new
reader capable of accepting SDHC cards.


On 23/09/2009 04:05, CWLee wrote:
>
> (Running Vista Ultimate 64-bit, SP-2, IE-7, WM-6, classic mode, dial-up,
> on an HP Pavilion desktop computer.)
>
> Computer runs fine.
>
> In the past I have transferred photos from my digital camera via a cable
> to a USB port, and that process has worked fine.
>
> A friend showed me how to remove the memory card (type: SD) from my
> camera, and how to insert it into one of the cluster of 4 different
> sized slots on my computer. When inserted a small green light comes on,
> but nothing else happens. Based on his experience with his computer, I
> was expecting, in Windows Explorer, for a lettered disk to appear,
> listing the photos on the memory card using the camera provided numbers
> - but, as mentioned, nothing happened.
>
> What is the next step after inserting the memory card and noting that
> the green light is on?
>
> Enlightenment appreciated.
>

"Dominic Payer" <> wrote:

> If your camera uses an SDHC card and your computer has
> only an older SD card reader the reader will not recognise
> the card. You will need a new reader capable of accepting
> SDHC cards.

The camera is about 5 years older than the computer, and I'm
quite sure it uses a SD card, not a SDHC card.

Thanks.

"whs" <> wrote:

> [image:
> http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/i...TG19/Comp.png]

I viewed that image, and that computer is configured
differently than mine. I'm running Vista Ultimate 64-bit,
SP-2, IE-7, WM-6, classic mode, dial-up. My guess is that
by using the classic mode, and getting rid of excessive
icons, our desktops look quite different.

Thanks.

On 9/23/09, the entity CWLee wrote this:
> "whs" <> wrote:

>> [image: http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/i...TG19/Comp.png]

> I viewed that image, and that computer is configured differently than mine.
> I'm running Vista Ultimate 64-bit, SP-2, IE-7, WM-6, classic mode, dial-up.
> My guess is that by using the classic mode, and getting rid of excessive
> icons, our desktops look quite different.

> Thanks.

Just run Windows Explorer then. That's all you're being asked to do.

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CWLee;1142987 Wrote:
> "whs" <> wrote
> > > >
> > > [image
> > > http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/i...TG19/Comp.png] > >
>
> I viewed that image, and that computer is configure
> differently than mine. I'm running Vista Ultimate 64-bit
> SP-2, IE-7, WM-6, classic mode, dial-up. My guess is tha
> by using the classic mode, and getting rid of excessiv
> icons, our desktops look quite different
>
> Thanks

That is really strange. I did not know that a start menu could be tha
different. I would be interested to see how your start menu looks like
Could you post a picture please?

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whs