Lamplight
25th of October 2009 (Sun), 12:45
I'm not sure if this is the correct forum for such a question, so if it's not I apologize. A few weeks ago I purchased a used 20D body which came with a battery, 1gb CF card, and the owner's manual; no software. I have one of the original Digital Rebels, and so the software that came with that is still installed on my computer. With my old camera, I had a 256mb Lexar CF card that came with its own card reader, and it worked beautifully. I would put the card into the reader, and simply open up "My Computer" and copy and paste the files to the folder I wanted. Easy. But the 20D came with a 1gb Sandisk card, so naturally I wanted to use that instead. I knew from experience that the Sandisk card would not work in the Lexar reader. So I bought a card reader, and everything worked fine. For a couple of weeks.
Now if I put the card into the reader and try to open up the folder to transfer the pictures, I get an error message that says "The drive is not formatted, would you like to format now?" At first I was confused and clicked "format", and lost a few pictures. Losing the pictures was no big deal, but not being able to put pictures on my computer was. I tried simply plugging the 20D directly into the computer with a USB cable, but the computer wouldn't recognize the camera because I don't have the software that came with it. Then I realized I could simply put the card in my old Rebel, and plug it in and upload the shots that way using the software that came with the Rebel. That, too, worked fine a few times, but now it has stopped working, as well. So yesterday I saw an 8gb Lexar card on sale, and bought it hoping it would work with the older Lexar card reader. But no dice. However, it did work in the Rebel the way I had been uploading. Now it's not working that way, either. It gives me an error message that says something similar to "No image files found of a recognizable format." Not those exact words, but similar. I can put the card back in the camera and the pictures are there like normal. Any ideas? :(
P.S. I'm using Windows 2000. I'm really thinking it may be time to upgrade.
Now if I put the card into the reader and try to open up the folder to transfer the pictures, I get an error message that says "The drive is not formatted, would you like to format now?" At first I was confused and clicked "format", and lost a few pictures. Losing the pictures was no big deal, but not being able to put pictures on my computer was. I tried simply plugging the 20D directly into the computer with a USB cable, but the computer wouldn't recognize the camera because I don't have the software that came with it. Then I realized I could simply put the card in my old Rebel, and plug it in and upload the shots that way using the software that came with the Rebel. That, too, worked fine a few times, but now it has stopped working, as well. So yesterday I saw an 8gb Lexar card on sale, and bought it hoping it would work with the older Lexar card reader. But no dice. However, it did work in the Rebel the way I had been uploading. Now it's not working that way, either. It gives me an error message that says something similar to "No image files found of a recognizable format." Not those exact words, but similar. I can put the card back in the camera and the pictures are there like normal. Any ideas? :(
P.S. I'm using Windows 2000. I'm really thinking it may be time to upgrade.