This article is funny. Thank you. I discovered the reader only accepts FAT-16. But it cannot format the card..... I will use my old card reader instead. I'll get the firm to take out the card reader and ask the other company where I bought the card reader from for my money back. Reply from Chris http://www.chrisspages.co.uk :> -----Original Message----- :> From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner- :> photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark Blackwell :> Sent: 13 June 2008 06:02 :> To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students :> Subject: Re: card reader :> :> Well I feel your pain. I just found a sale on a Seagate 500gig external :> hard drive that should have been plug an play. Well installation :> instructions were almost nil and had additional software that would back :> up your entire computer which I didn't want to use. It was surposed to :> be an image only archive. :>