XP will not show camera

Hardass

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When I plug my camera in at home screen pops up to see what I want to do with pics. The computer at work shows camera in Safely remove area but I can not find it on computer to download pics. It is also running XP?

 

silencer51

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Is it an MS LifeCam by any chance?

 

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Sony Cybershot

 

silencer51

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Sorry, I thought you were talking about a webcam (I need to get some sleep).

From what I understand, the camera is recognized but it doesn't appear as a drive letter in My Computer. Right?

You could try going to 'Administrative Tools' -> Computer Management -> Storage -> Disk Management and see if you can manually assign a drive letter to the camera...

 

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I see it in removable media, but can not get it to show in my computer so I can open it.

 

silencer51

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When you say you see it in removable media, you mean on the 'safely remove hardware' thing on the taskbar, right? It doesn't show up anywhere on my computer?

Then for some reason Windows doesn't assign it a drive letter.

Try to manually assign it a drive letter through Disk Management in Admin. Tools. as described above

 

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Comp Management, Removable storage is where I see it. No way to assign any Drive letter. Says it is not mounted, whatever that is.

 

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No option to mount it?

 

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JamesXP said:

No option to mount it?

Click to expand...

Not that I can see.

 

Zuzzz

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Right click the device and see if it will mount. Also check in that Computer Management screen and see if XP can identify the partition type. XP must see the partition in order to mount it.

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