Card reader problems?

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Have you tried putting cards into the slots and see if they can be read?

I have a multi-card reader, but the only slots that show up are the ones in
which I have already inserted cards. The unused slots don't show up yet.
Once mapped to Drive letters, though, they persist regardless of whether a
card is in the slot.

"BruceM" <bruce@@hotmail.com> wrote...
>I have a card reader that if I plug into USB ports on any XP computer auto
>installs & shows up as 4 drives in Device manager & also as 4 "removable
>disk" in My Computer.
> Now the problem I have is that on another similar comp with XP but only
> SP1 installed, it shows up as 4 in Device Manager but only 2 in My
> Computer. I've tried other USB ports to no effect.
> Is it possible that somewhere there is a restriction on number of drives?
> There are already quite a few letters allocated as it is used for running
> POS gear & there are 3 network drives.
> I know on 98 you could limit drive letters to A---G or such.
> Could it be in the bios?
> A dif card reader has the same problem. It is got to be in the setup
> somewhere.
>

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Well a bit of update.
One of the main slots that I do need to work on the card is the Compact
Flash slot.
On card reader 1 that slot won't show even with the card in it. (formatted &
all).
On another card reader that slot (luckily) is one of the two that does show
up so I swapped card readers for her.
That is a good suggestion about TweakIU, I'll do that next chance but at
least it's going now. Suspect that SP2 might fix it anyway?
Thanks for your suggestions.


"Stephen" <stephen2002{NOSPAM}@lurker.homeip.net> wrote in message
news:rlu5b1l9v4cgupnslge1emg6b1m2sjs0ra@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 08:43:30 +0930, "BruceM" <bruce@@hotmail.com> had
> a flock of green cheek conures squawk out:
>
>>I have a card reader that if I plug into USB ports on any XP computer auto
>>installs & shows up as 4 drives in Device manager & also as 4 "removable
>>disk" in My Computer.
>>Now the problem I have is that on another similar comp with XP but only
>>SP1
>>installed, it shows up as 4 in Device Manager but only 2 in My Computer.
>>I've tried other USB ports to no effect.
>>Is it possible that somewhere there is a restriction on number of drives?
>>There are already quite a few letters allocated as it is used for running
>>POS gear & there are 3 network drives.
>>I know on 98 you could limit drive letters to A---G or such.
>>Could it be in the bios?
>>A dif card reader has the same problem. It is got to be in the setup
>>somewhere.
>>
>
> Did you use TweakUI for XP to reduce the number of available drive
> letters on that pc? If not, use it to see if any were unchecked.
>
> Stephen
>
>
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