Alan McCright
December 8th 03, 08:02 PM
Greetings,
I have a Lexar pcmcia compactflash reader/adapter CFAD-
003. I am using this in conjunction with a Nikon 5700
camera, its supplied 8x 16Mb CF starter card, and a 12x
Lexar 512Mb CF card.
Both CF cards work flawlessly in the camera and download
images into our computers from the Nikon's USB port with
no problem. Trying to use either card in the pcmcia
adapter seems fruitless.
My wife's computer is a Dell Inspiron 4100 and mine is a
Dell Inspiron 7500, both running Dell's OEM Windows XP.
Although both computers can recognise that the card
exists, they cannot read the card past the root directory
of the CF. One file appears in the root: "NHKNN000.DRC"
along with one folder, "DBIL"--this folder should
read "DCIM" so there are two mysterious letter
tranpositions. "NHKNN000.DRC" can be opened in a text/hex
editor, but displays only a series of hex zeros, (newly
formatted, blank CF card).
On attempting to open folder "DBIL" the message appears:
"F:\DBIL is not accessable. The file or directory is
corrupted and unreadable."
And indeed it is, now, (it was fine when it left the
camera), and requires reformatting in the Nikon.
Attempting to format the CF card to FAT in Windows
results in the message:
"Windows was unable to complete the format."
Reformatting in the Nikon results in camera-useable CF
cards, once more.
An attempt to transfer image files with the
extention ".gif" from the computer to the card, resulted
in files on the CF card with the proper filename but they
now have the extention ".ghf"--again the mysterious
letter transformation. The files seem corrupted and are
unreadable in image viewers.
Any help would be much appreciated.
My thanks in advance,
Alan McCright
I have a Lexar pcmcia compactflash reader/adapter CFAD-
003. I am using this in conjunction with a Nikon 5700
camera, its supplied 8x 16Mb CF starter card, and a 12x
Lexar 512Mb CF card.
Both CF cards work flawlessly in the camera and download
images into our computers from the Nikon's USB port with
no problem. Trying to use either card in the pcmcia
adapter seems fruitless.
My wife's computer is a Dell Inspiron 4100 and mine is a
Dell Inspiron 7500, both running Dell's OEM Windows XP.
Although both computers can recognise that the card
exists, they cannot read the card past the root directory
of the CF. One file appears in the root: "NHKNN000.DRC"
along with one folder, "DBIL"--this folder should
read "DCIM" so there are two mysterious letter
tranpositions. "NHKNN000.DRC" can be opened in a text/hex
editor, but displays only a series of hex zeros, (newly
formatted, blank CF card).
On attempting to open folder "DBIL" the message appears:
"F:\DBIL is not accessable. The file or directory is
corrupted and unreadable."
And indeed it is, now, (it was fine when it left the
camera), and requires reformatting in the Nikon.
Attempting to format the CF card to FAT in Windows
results in the message:
"Windows was unable to complete the format."
Reformatting in the Nikon results in camera-useable CF
cards, once more.
An attempt to transfer image files with the
extention ".gif" from the computer to the card, resulted
in files on the CF card with the proper filename but they
now have the extention ".ghf"--again the mysterious
letter transformation. The files seem corrupted and are
unreadable in image viewers.
Any help would be much appreciated.
My thanks in advance,
Alan McCright