----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris" : My camera uses a xD picture card. I've been using a separate USB card reader : to read it but I recently purchased an internal card reader. This reads CF : and SD cards but although the slot takes the card, it cannot see the xD : card. It almost sees it, the mouse changes as I put it in but my computer : says "no disc in drive". Mark writes: Sounds to me like it's not designed to read xD cards. : there's incompatibility between cards and readers wih XD's according to the wikipedia article I read the other day when someone brought around a card that went wrong on them. I'd not worked on an XD card prior to this.. I have 3 internal readers on three PC's and had just bought *yet another* external reader to read/recover data from a dodgy Smartmedia card - another card type which also has compatibility issues, but had no luck with that reader either. The customer had pulled the XD from their camera and loaded it into a card reader at a friends house - they'd had no trouble in the past - but on this occassion the card reader didn't see their card. when they put it back into the camera it registered as corrupted, hence the visit to me. I suggested that as they were on their way home to the other side of the country they wait till they got home, load the card in the reader they know *did* recognise the card and run a few recovery programs over it. but I ramble. Best bet Chris is to revert to your external reader and use the internal for other things :( Karl
