Card reader help please

Andy Gough

Andy Gough

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Can anyone offer any help please. My old XP system has gone belly up and the only way I can edit my photographs at the moment is via my laptop. I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop which is only 3 month's old. The problem i have is a card reader will only work once after being plugged into any USB slot. This is the 3rd reader i've bought and all 3 have done the same, I plug them in, download the pictures, eject the reader and then it won't work the next time i plug it in :confused:. I'm not sure it's the reader at fault every time because the laptop doesn't seem to regognise i have one even plugged in.

Any help would be great, thank you.
 
Andy, aplogies in case i've got this wrong but are you saying that you have purchased three readers and on each ocasion you have only been able to use each individual reader only once?
As a process of elimination as i'm old fashioned does the lap top recognise every other device you put through the usb ports? Can you try the card readers on another lap top for starters? Are they all the same readers?
 
I am betting that it does recognise the card reader each and every time.

I would say the problem is with your card

Format your card in camera and try again with the card reader.

You really should format your card in camera each and every time you use the card reader.
 
Try just unplugging the reader after each session rather than ejecting it. As a precaution, take an extra copy off the card as a backup and maybe even make a DVD as an extra layer of backup just in case the card gets corrupted (it shouldn't, as long as you wait until the computer's finished accessing it before removing the reader.)
 
Ejecting the memory card can stop the USB port from working. Restarting the laptop will reset the USB ports to working condition.
I never bother with ejecting cards, as long as no data is being written to or read from the card the will be no problems.
 
Thank you charlie 5, Keith W, Nod & redsnappa. It is the card, not the reader. I have taken a few snaps around the house with another card in the camera and the reader had no problem with it at all after re starting the laptop. The card that is faulty doesn't work on a friends desk top with a built in card reader, so it looks like I need a new card.

Many thanks for your help guys, all the best.
 
Andy Gough said:
Thank you charlie 5, Keith W, Nod & redsnappa. It is the card, not the reader. I have taken a few snaps around the house with another card in the camera and the reader had no problem with it at all after re starting the laptop. The card that is faulty doesn't work on a friends desk top with a built in card reader, so it looks like I need a new card.

Many thanks for your help guys, all the best.
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Glad you got it sorted in the end.
 
redsnappa said:
Ejecting the memory card can stop the USB port from working. Restarting the laptop will reset the USB ports to working condition.
I never bother with ejecting cards, as long as no data is being written to or read from the card the will be no problems.
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Setting the card reader's policy to disable write caching helps a lot with this - instructions here.
 
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