Vista 64 wont recignize flash drive or camera

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Turtlescout - 24 Feb 2008 07:02 GMT

Vista 64 didn't recignize my Panasonic camera, so I removed the sd card and
used a card reader which vista64 couldnt find a driver for either. How do I
make this work? Is microsoft putting any real effort into their 64bit os or
am I waisting my time?

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John Barnes - 24 Feb 2008 14:23 GMT

Microsoft doesn't do product specific drivers. If you need drivers you are
going to have to contact the manufacturer. Many do not provide 64-bit
drivers, and on the other hand many are designed to use the default drivers
for usb devices.

> Vista 64 didn't recignize my Panasonic camera, so I removed the sd card
> and
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> or
> am I waisting my time?

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waxace - 24 Feb 2008 22:59 GMT

I am running a very powerful 64 bit system that I built and I have no issues
with My Canon or Olympus or any other cameras I attach to the system through
USB 2.0.
Now, the Olympus and others show as their own drive and named so.
The Canon just hooked right up and is a drive on it's own not like the others.
Taking the cards out of each instead of hooking them up through USB as I
stated before, I plug the cards into a universal reader OR my printer gives
me no issues at all.
I have to assume that you have a driver issue although most cameras install
the drivers when they are connected.
I suggest you go to the site of your camera and check for new updated
drivers and/or 64bit drivers.
It is possible that the camera you have will not work on a 64bit system.
With that said, I want to say that even though I have a fast and powerful
system, it STILL should not make a difference. There are a lot of programs
(More each week) that are updating to 64bit and even the ones that are not
seem to run in a lot of cases along side of 64bit....

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> Vista 64 didn't recignize my Panasonic camera, so I removed the sd card and
> used a card reader which vista64 couldnt find a driver for either. How do I
> make this work? Is microsoft putting any real effort into their 64bit os or
> am I waisting my time?

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Turtlescout - 26 Feb 2008 01:38 GMT

What I ended up doing, is pluging in my devivce. My Panasonic camera and my
genaric card reader, and restart my computer with the Vista disk in the
drive. I then canceled the "locate Driver" window and it see it as a mass
storage device. Its a little messy to do it this way, but its better than
ditching everything and going back to 32bit (maybe)
Thanks

> I am running a very powerful 64 bit system that I built and I have no issues
> with My Canon or Olympus or any other cameras I attach to the system through
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> > make this work? Is microsoft putting any real effort into their 64bit os or
> > am I waisting my time?

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R. C. White - 25 Feb 2008 17:20 GMT

Hi, Turtlescout.

My Vista Ultimate x64 sees both my Nikon camera and my SD card reader just
fine.

Tell us more about your card reader: Is it built into your computer? If
not, what is the make and model? Is it plugged directly into a USB port, or
into a hub? If it plugs directly into the computer, then Vista's built-in
drivers should work, but if it uses a hub, you may need drivers for that
hub. Does this reader work with another computer?

You should be able to see this card reader in Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc)
and assign it a "drive" letter to use (semi-)permanently, each time you
remove and re-insert it into the USB port.

RC

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> Vista 64 didn't recignize my Panasonic camera, so I removed the sd card
> and
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> or
> am I waisting my time?

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Sov - 25 Feb 2008 19:15 GMT

I don't know if this is related or not, but I had a lot of problem with USB
and 1394 devices after installing Vista64.

I am new to Vista so I am not sure which drivers I should be installing or
what the differences are, but I was able to fix both my USB and 1394 issues
by installing drivers from the Winsxs folder.

There are drivers in three different folders (drivers, driverstore, and
winsxs); perhaps someone here can explain their differences.

--Sov

> Hi, Turtlescout.
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> > or
> > am I waisting my time?

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Sov - 26 Feb 2008 05:46 GMT

You can try installing new drivers in /windows/system32/driverstore or winsxy.

Don't let Vista search though because it won't find it. What you need to do
is install them manually (i.e., type in the location path)....

c:/windows/system32/driverstore

or

c:/windows/system32/winsxs

I worked for me....

Sov

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