Re: Issue reading a digital camera card in a notebook

[Glenn Hopwood <ghopwood.list@xxxxxxxxx>]

The reader in her laptop may not read the new card. I had a similar 
experience and bought a new reader and now can read the cards without a 
problem.

Glenn

On 12/7/2010 9:33 AM, Chuck Lewis wrote:
> Hi folks,
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> Just got asked an interesting question. A co-worker got a new digital
> camera with a really good zoom feature. She takes pictures and then
> takes the card from the camera and puts it in her notebook running
> Windows XP and it just sits there and does nothing. She takes the card
> and puts it in her husband's notebook running Vista and it comes up
> fine. Her husband had an older more basic digital camera and she took
> the card from that and her notebook can read that one fine. Nice to have
> a sharp user eh? :-)
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> Anyone have an idea as to what's going on? We were thinking with the
> advanced zoom that the resolution might be much higher and that's
> causing the issue but I would think the XP notebook would just issue a
> message that it needs to reduce the resolution or something?
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> Thanks !
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> Chuck