vista Inspiron 1501 card reader,help

james123 · 07-01-2008 10:22pm #1

Bought the new dell inspiron 1501 with vista.
Which has a built memory card reader sd/sdio/mmc it says on the top of it.
I have a memory card from a nokia phone which has videos i need.
It fits in perfectly, the laptop seems to read it as so far as everytime i put it in the icon to safely remove it appears(Ricoh MMC disk device) it says when clicked on. but cant see it anywhere in computer.
Should i be looking for it somewhere else any ideas how i can read,or whats wrong?

Thanks

JæKæ · 07-01-2008 10:26pm

Have a look in My Computer, how many mapped drives do you have? Most likely the reader is trying to take a drive letter that's already in use.

Right click my computer > manage > disk management
Check which letter it's trying to use. If it's already in use, right click and 'change drive letter and path
Change it to a letter that isn't in use

Just realised it's Vista-this solution probably won't work!

james123 · 07-01-2008 10:37pm

i have no mapped drives as such.
just my c: drive e: drive(cd drive) and d: recovery drive maybe if i map another

JæKæ · 08-01-2008 1:13am

Right click computer > manage > disk management
Does it show up here? If so you may need to initialise it

james123 · 08-01-2008 6:50pm

it does show up there but has no drive letter how do i initialise it?

vista Inspiron 1501 card reader,help

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