videobruce 0 Posted January 23, 2004 Anyone with digital camera experiance and card readers? I have a 9 in 1 ATech card reader (USB 2) and it corrupted a CF card doing a CUT and paste operation. Previous COPY and paste operations were ok. I was able to reformat the card in another camera since the Minolta wouldn't even work with the card installed. I'm running 2k w/sp3 on one bootable drive and sp4 in the other bootable drive. It was the sp4 drive where that problem happened (don't know if that is the issue). The sp4 install shows 4 drive letters for each slot. The sp3 install only shows ONE drive letter and I can't access the XD slot with that drive, only the sp4 w/ 4 drive letters. Why would a CUT and paste (thus deleting, or trying to delete the files) corrupt the whole card?? Lastly, is this a sp3 vs sp4 issue with the absense of the other drive letters? Share this post Link to post
videobruce 0 Posted January 24, 2004 Update................ It was my understanding that the 'eject hardware' icon in the system tray (Win 2k w/sp4) was for removing the whole device (card reader) not for each memory card itself. The instructions for the Atech Pro 9 reader I have says that also. BUT, others have said to use the eject hardware before you remove the card from the reader. If I remove the card without using that utility, I get a message "delayed write failed.........unable to save all the data". If I use that utility, the whole entry disappears and I can't use the reader without a reboot. BTW, there are NO drivers installed for the reader per Atech's recomendation even though the instructions say different! Share this post Link to post
Jerry Atrik 0 Posted January 25, 2004 in the nt days it was important to eject devices in explorer by right clicking and ejecting. this finished writing and closed out "data markers"(?) i failed a cf card by just pulling it out without ejecting it from explorer. this is on xp so im not sure if it applies... but i thought id share. Share this post Link to post
