Built in Media card reader

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  1. dabarbrie

    dabarbrie Member

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    I have a built in sd card reader in my Dell laptop which appears in
    device manager as working ok and most up to date driver installed. It
    also appears in the safely remove device icon. However nothing appears
    in my computer and I cannot find any way to access the drive. I have
    windows XP Professional SP3 installed fully updated. Anyone else come
    across the same problem ?
     
    dabarbrie, Feb 3, 2011
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    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    have you tried uninstalling it from device manager & restart windows so can find new hardware & load it's driver?
     
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    No. I will try that now though.
     
    dabarbrie, Feb 4, 2011
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    That didn't seem to work. I rebooted and it's still gone from the device manager.
     
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    what shows up in the device manager in it's place as in unknown device or an exclamation mark?
     
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    no. there's nothing for that card reader and there's one for a USB Smart Card Reader. no unknown device or exclamation mark.
     
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    i presume the usb smart card reader is external? what is the make & model# of the dell?
     
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    If the driver package has an installer, try using that.
     
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    There is no usb card reader. It's listed on the device manager but I don't have anything hooked up to it. It's a Dell Lattitude E6410.

    There's no driver installer either.
     
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    ddp, Feb 5, 2011
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