how do I change my USB settings from camera to disk drive?

Question

My HP Media Center pops up an advisory that, "A camera has been detected. To view the images you need to change how your camera is recognized by the PC. The camera's USB setting must be set to disk drive instead of digital camera."

Problem is, I have no idea how to change this. Can someone give me quick step-by-step as to how to change this? I have a HP Pavillion.

Answer 1

Try hitting cancel for the pop up. Then open file manager and see if you can see the camera under "my computer". The HP application is probably trying to be helpful and thinks you can't do anything with the camera without it's assistance.

Kodak application was the same way. I finally uninstalled the Kodak interface. It kept trying to sell me upgrades and glossy prints from their online stores.

Answer 2

You do that on the digicam and not on the PC so that PC will recognize the digicam's memory as an attached mass storage device on the USB port. Check you digicam's manual or its menu screen.