Post by BuckSkin on Dec 4, 2017 18:05:57 GMT
The Title should really read "What to do When Your Computer Does Not Recognize Your Memory Card Reader" , but the character restriction cut me off.
I put this here for anyone else who might find themselves confronted with this dilemma.
We have at least half-a-dozen card readers (and the wife managed to get caught without one on a recent beach vacation and had to buy another).
I do have a favorite one though, a 3.0 USB Transcend little rectangular box with a separate USB cable; it is the first one I reach for when at home.
Much to my surprise, last night, I tried to use it to load some pictures the wife had taken onto her machine; it had never made a stumble on that machine before; alas, although it made that weird "USB device has just been plugged in" noise, it would not show up in Explorer; I tried several times, changing USB ports in the process.
I got to thinking that maybe an insect had crawled down in there where the card goes in.
I grabbed an old el-cheapo reader and it recognized it instantly.
So, I try it on my machine and it works perfect; try it in her machine again and it still won't show up.
An internet search brought me to this:
www.drivereasy.com/knowledge/resolvedsd-card-is-not-recognized-by-pc/
Possibly the cause of the problem is that I had just the day before cloned my O/S onto a new HDD and installed it in her machine; this due to a violent electrical surge that had fouled up her HDD and corrupted her O/S; it is possible that the driver for that particular card reader had gotten messed up during the transfer.
Hopefully none of you ever have this to happen; but, according to all the solutions that show up in a search, the problem is quite common; maybe this will help someone else.
Thanks for reading.
I put this here for anyone else who might find themselves confronted with this dilemma.
We have at least half-a-dozen card readers (and the wife managed to get caught without one on a recent beach vacation and had to buy another).
I do have a favorite one though, a 3.0 USB Transcend little rectangular box with a separate USB cable; it is the first one I reach for when at home.
Much to my surprise, last night, I tried to use it to load some pictures the wife had taken onto her machine; it had never made a stumble on that machine before; alas, although it made that weird "USB device has just been plugged in" noise, it would not show up in Explorer; I tried several times, changing USB ports in the process.
I got to thinking that maybe an insect had crawled down in there where the card goes in.
I grabbed an old el-cheapo reader and it recognized it instantly.
So, I try it on my machine and it works perfect; try it in her machine again and it still won't show up.
An internet search brought me to this:
www.drivereasy.com/knowledge/resolvedsd-card-is-not-recognized-by-pc/
Possibly the cause of the problem is that I had just the day before cloned my O/S onto a new HDD and installed it in her machine; this due to a violent electrical surge that had fouled up her HDD and corrupted her O/S; it is possible that the driver for that particular card reader had gotten messed up during the transfer.
Hopefully none of you ever have this to happen; but, according to all the solutions that show up in a search, the problem is quite common; maybe this will help someone else.
Thanks for reading.