Card Reader Troubles

[shrimply]

Hi again, I'm having a few problems with the internal card reader on my new computer. And I'm basically putting this down to not really knowing what I'm doing.

 

First is there a way to make them not visible under computer when there isn't anything in them, like with USB ports, I've found myself searching through a list of 4 "Removable Disks" to find the one I have a card inserted into. Its kinda inconvenient.

 

Secondly I have managed to rename one, I though if I right clicked on it when there was an SD card in it and clicked rename, it would rename the SD card. Apparently not the case:rolleyes:. I now have one that is named "2GB SD" no matter what is inserted into it. And although I can rename it to anything I like it won't give me enough characters to put it back to the default "removable disk", I've tried uninstalling the drivers and everything but it won't go back.

 

Can anyone help, I can't believe something so simple is the biggest problem I've got with the new computer.

[shrimply]

One more issue - if I try to "safely remove" a card then all the card slots disappear and won't reappear until I restart the computer, surely this isn't right.

[maynardvdm]

Hi

 

Did you get a driver disk with the card reader?

[shrimply]

Funnily enough I did, but never ran it as everything was working, is that my problem?

[maynardvdm]

Hi

 

You can try that, normally it is not needed, i was just thinking on where to start ;)

 

Have you checked if you see it in device manager?

[RandyL]

Shrimply try doing a System Restore to before you renamed the drive. I messed up my drives in Windows Millenium years ago and System Restore fixed it.

 

if I try to "safely remove" a card then all the card slots disappear and won't reappear until I restart the computer

Welcome to the wonderful world of Vista quirks. You're not alone. Myself and others have the same issue. These days I wait until I turn my computer off before removing any cards or unplugging a USB device such as my digital camera. I've never found a fix for it.

 

First is there a way to make them not visible under computer when there isn't anything in them

They are just like a hard drive or optical drive. They are going to stay listed I'm afraid.

[shrimply]

I did manage to get the renamed one back, and I promise it wasn't working when I posted but when I tried renaming it and left it blank it reverted back to "Removable Disk" so at least that's sorted.

 

Sounds like the rest I'll have to learn to live with, I think I made the wrong assumption that since they used USB headers they would work just like USB ports, obviously that's not the case. At least now I've managed to name my cards and not the drive I can easily recognise which slot has a card in it.

 

I notice that if I right click the card drives in my computer and select eject, it seems to stop reading the card. Is this effectively the same as "safely removing" and stops the card being read by the PC? I'm presuming it is.

 

Thanks

Edited September 9, 2009 by shrimply