Minisd removable drive not showing

[ya1theman]

ok guys, back to school so im a lil busy, so ill try this out , give me some time to reply. Thanks a bunch guys. Thankyou

[ya1theman]

ok cozucomb i dont understand what you ment by the adminstrative thingy, where can i find system? I have tried the command on command prompt - doesnt work. Tweak UI has the removable drive ticked as N: but it doesnt show on my computer . Heres a screenshot. Please help, thanks guys

[ya1theman]

sorry for triple post, ACL Viewer doesnt read the drive. Heres a screenshot (attached). I Also notice when i copy some files to the minisd (i access minisd by right click on disk management minisd, then open) it cant have long name anymore, for some odd reason :S.

[cauzomb]

FAT "different from FAT16 and FAT32" does not support long file names, it's probly only using 8.3 try converting it to FAT32 with disk managment.

[ya1theman]

i tried with disk management, right click the format. I get some error saying like i dont have permission to do this operation or i can restart to enable. I restarted and still the same thing. The only way to changing to fat is by formatting right? Otherwise partitioning would require the reovable drive to show up on my computer. Man this is a strange problem, please help. Thanks

[F1]

Under "Computer Management" check the drive letter assigned to the card reader; if any other drive has the same drive letter, it will not show up in My Computer. You will have to manually change the drive letter assigned to the reader to one not used by any other drive.

[TurcoLoco]

Along with what F1 said, check the Device Manager and make sure there are no yellow exclamation marks or any other reportings indicating a related problem.

One other possibility is that a background process of some kind could be the reason, not very common but a possibility. What are the programs/process running in the background that you do not need and could close? I would suggest opening Task Manager and ending all processes that are not in use or system critical, pretty much kill all processes listed under the current user name except Explorer.exe and TaskMgr.exe, if in doubt, ask ok?

Other than these, I would try removing XP installed drivers by uninstalling the device under Device Manager, detach the drive then rebooting the system and re-connect the drive to see if it helped.

~TL

[cauzomb]

i tried with disk management, right click the format. I get some error saying like i dont have permission to do this operation or i can restart to enable. I restarted and still the same thing. The only way to changing to fat is by formatting right? Otherwise partitioning would require the reovable drive to show up on my computer. Man this is a strange problem, please help. Thanks

naw, you shouldn't have to reformat the card, there's a utility that will convert the file system called drive converter or similar sounding app built into windows disk managment. Are you logging in as administrator? you should be logged in as administrator prior to trying these changes. I haven't been using windows xp long enough to know where "ALL" the policy's are adjusted from so I haven't located what I referenced about the sytem removable media yet.. Another thing to try that should give you full access to your files, if you have a firewire or USB cable that came with the camera, try connecting the camera to the PC/laptop via the usb or firewire cable, then use the camera's software to download your files/ then re-format the card with the camera via the camera menu on the lcd, then try the card in the computer again. Reformatting with the camera will restore the file system and should remove any volume/directory permissions that may have been set by a pc but it will not change "group" "user" or system policies that might be set on your laptop

[cauzomb]

From your screenshot; command prompt commands, cacls etc etc... I see that you are adding the underscore and a space, the underscore seen in Turco's example actually means press space here, don't include the underscore in your command.

[cauzomb]

I found something else you can check on through computer management as administrator; Go to control panel, administrative tools, computer management, click on storage, double click on media, or the expand + sign for media, locate and double click on libraries, or the expand + sign for libraries, locate and right click on your removable device for your sd card, select properties and view the general settings tab, look down at the bottom left corner of the general properties tab, ensure that "enable drive" is ticked/checked. Locate and click on the security properties tab on the top bar of the properties window for your removable device. In the Security properties tab you will find a list of users and options for what permissions each of the listed users have for this device. As administrator you can change the permissions for each user in this area, I suggest checking each of the "allow" options; "use" "control" and "modify" for administrators, power users and users. There is another option in the removable storage media tree, click on media and right click on your removable device, select properties and ensure the "enable media" is ticked/checked.