PC/Laptop guru's..........Help!!!

[MattW]

I seem to have a very strange problem with my HP laptop.

Basically, it can "see" my Sony memory stick from my digital camera, however it can't open it. Looking at My Computer/Windows explorer it sits there, however when you try to open it you just get a message as if it was a floppy drive with no disk "Please insert disk into drive F". If you right click and properties, again nothing - says 0 bytes.

I've had another MS from a friends camera and it's exactly the same. I have used the card reader with my own stick a few times, but probably not for a few months i must admit.

HP have suggested Re-flashing BIOS drivers and re-installing the card reader drivers, which on the face of it seems like a good idea. However, didn't make any difference (well apart from the fact that my display got brighter when i flashed the bios!!!)

Anyone got any good ideas?? Laptop is still under warrenty, so i could send it back if i really have to, but that would be a right PITA!!

[DCM]

thats an odd one, does it only see it in both reader and camera?

[_JP_]

Matt are there anydrivers for the camera?

Do you have any mapped network drives?

what do you see when you remove the card, is there anything reporting to be an "F" drive?

LOL flash the BIOS what a bunch of nobs some tech support lines are, did they not ask you to reformat!

[matdodd]

Thats not such a good idea then JP

[_JP_]

BIOS flashing can be disastrous, if you screw that up it kills the PC, there are ways back, but its not easy

[Southwell]

Ive only seen this when the sticks can't map to their drive letter, normally on networks as they have various drive mappings. Some sticks are set to a certain letter, normally F:.
Try the following with the stick inserted, you should be able to change the drive letter, which MIGHT work.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q307844