pc doesnt reconize my sd card or usb ports?

Question

My pc does not reconize my sd card or usb 2.0 ports(7 total) my pc is only a year old and does not reconize my cameras when i hook them into the usb ports and now that i brought a sd card it does not reconize theat either anyone that possible knows please help me

Answer 1

Check internally to be sure that the USB Ports are hooked up properly. Also check for updates on your Windows as well as USB driver updates.

lastly, it could be broken. Have a tech check it out.

Answer 2

Hi enrique,

I'll give a couple guesses here.

Well, the usb 2.0 was probably installed in a pci or agp slot, right? Okay, for that, you may have to download updated device drivers directly from the manufacturer of the card. Meanwhile, to check to see if the system is even recognizing the usb properly as 2.0 (instead of 1.1), you should go to My Computer> right-click for Properties>Hardware tab>click 'Device Manager' and search down the hardware tree until you get to 'Universal Serial Bus Controllers'. If one of them reads something with "USB 2.0", at least that's fine; if not, I refer back to the updated drivers.

Also, you may not be able to access your device directly; usually, when you connect a storage device (which a camera would be, just like an iPod), a new icon should appear in "My Computer" displaying it as such, but if not, there's another way to get to it: go to Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Disk Management. There, you may see your device after all, but it hasn't been assigned a drive letter yet. Right-click the drive (that is, if you do see it) and select the option (I'm forgetting at the moment, but I'll describe it) where you are allowed to assign the device a drive letter; afterwards, the drive should be accessible and you can double click or right-click and select "open" .

Okay.. so (assuming your usb card is just fine) *why are you getting this problem?* Don't know for sure, but I have a theory:

Was the operating system of your PC preinstalled?

If so, what you have is an "OEM" ("Original Equipment Manufacturer") version of the Windows; in other words, in incomplete, stripped down "volume license" version that does not have the proper utilities to do something as simple as normally display an removable storage device without going through all of this monkey business to access it. OEM's are provided as sparse source-code to hardware manufacturers at a discount for purchasing multiple copies (hence "volume"): they do not require to have the full capabilities of their retail counterparts (hence the *discount*).

So.. if the above mentioned steps gain you access to your camera, that's the working fix, but a more permanent (but costly) solution would be to install or upgrade to a complete version of the operating system; maybe you have a friend that can loan you such a disk.

Good luck.

Answer 3

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