Computer can’t read SD card
I just returned from a trip to Easter Island and Patagonia. I was limited in the camera gear I could take especially as the Patagonia part of the trip was completely on horseback. I chose to take my Nikon D7200 with a 18-200 mm lens which I left locked in my suitcase for the horseback riding portion. I took an old Fuji FinePix HS 30 bridge camera for a longer reach and because I wouldn’t mind getting it banged up in my saddle bags for the horseback riding portion. Now that I am home, none of my computers or my ipad will recognize the photos from the Fuji camera. The computers say the card needs to be formatted. Obviously I can’t do that or the photos will be lost. I can view all the photos with the Fuji camera, so they are on the card. What is the best way of recovering these photos from the card to make them useable? Thanks in advance for your help! The trip was fabulous, by the way!
Connect the camera to the computer by cable, and transfer the photos that way.
Or, in other words, use the camera as a card-reader.
(Asking the obvious: Your card is not locked, is it? Check the little switch on the side).
Is the following an option with that camera? Email the pix you want to yourself directly from the camera. Use a google ISP address for 25 meg capacity. It’s slow but better than nothing. It’s how I download photos from my iPhone. Hope that’s helpful.
Morning Star wrote:
Connect the camera to the computer by cable, and transfer the photos that way.
Or, in other words, use the camera as a card-reader.
(Asking the obvious: Your card is not locked, is it? Check the little switch on the side).
On another site the opposite advice was given:
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We seem to be using the same setup, except for the adapter (SD card reader vs USB 3 camera kit). I’ll try again tonight with a card reader instead of connecting directly to the camera."
There were also references that compressed raw were not recognized when transferring through the camera. Mostly they were using Apple products.
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Can you view the pictures with the camera? Do you have the disk that came with the camera? If not, you can probably download it. That should let you get the images.
Thanks!! The card was not locked but using the USB cord to connect the camera to the computer worked beautifully. Here’s a photo that was on the card of the Rano Kau volcanic crater on Easter Island. So glad to have recovered the photos!
TKT
Loc: New Mexico
I had a similiar problem once but it wasn't the computer, it was a bad SD card. Once I removed the card from the camera the card fell apart and couldn't be used again. So check the card very carefully before reusing it. It seemed that the camera held the card so it could be read correctly, but once removed from the camera the card fell apart and couldn't be used again.
TriX
Loc: Raleigh, NC
Jacqui Burke wrote:
I just returned from a trip to Easter Island and Patagonia. I was limited in the camera gear I could take especially as the Patagonia part of the trip was completely on horseback. I chose to take my Nikon D7200 with a 18-200 mm lens which I left locked in my suitcase for the horseback riding portion. I took an old Fuji FinePix HS 30 bridge camera for a longer reach and because I wouldn’t mind getting it banged up in my saddle bags for the horseback riding portion. Now that I am home, none of my computers or my ipad will recognize the photos from the Fuji camera. The computers say the card needs to be formatted. Obviously I can’t do that or the photos will be lost. I can view all the photos with the Fuji camera, so they are on the card. What is the best way of recovering these photos from the card to make them useable? Thanks in advance for your help! The trip was fabulous, by the way!
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Download them from the camera using the Fuji WiFi ap.
If that camera does not have a cord to connect to the computer you can put the card into you D7200 and use the cord that came with that. I have the same problem with my Canon SX720. I can put the card into my D7100 and it works. This started when the Geek Squad gave me an "upgrade" to Windows 10.
I had the problem after a Windows 10 update. The computer’s built in card reader and a USB 3 card that I had installed for Windows 8 both stopped working. When I replaced the USB card with one made for Windows 10, it worked and so did the card reader. The driver for the USB card was the right one for the card reader too.
Jacqui Burke wrote:
I just returned from a trip to Easter Island and Patagonia. I was limited in the camera gear I could take especially as the Patagonia part of the trip was completely on horseback. I chose to take my Nikon D7200 with a 18-200 mm lens which I left locked in my suitcase for the horseback riding portion. I took an old Fuji FinePix HS 30 bridge camera for a longer reach and because I wouldn’t mind getting it banged up in my saddle bags for the horseback riding portion. Now that I am home, none of my computers or my ipad will recognize the photos from the Fuji camera. The computers say the card needs to be formatted. Obviously I can’t do that or the photos will be lost. I can view all the photos with the Fuji camera, so they are on the card. What is the best way of recovering these photos from the card to make them useable? Thanks in advance for your help! The trip was fabulous, by the way!
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Camera to computer cable is probably the safest, but try a different card reader, had one computer that would sometimes not read a card with the built in reader but a reader plugged into a USB port worked fine, just an idea, Bob.
Traveller_Jeff wrote:
Is the following an option with that camera? Email the pix you want to yourself directly from the camera. Use a google ISP address for 25 meg capacity. It’s slow but better than nothing. It’s how I download photos from my iPhone. Hope that’s helpful.
RE downloading from iPhone. I can’t remember the steps but I saw where you can change the device driver for an iPhone to a generic one that will view the iPhone as a USB device instead of having to access it with iTunes.
47greyfox
Loc: on the edge of the Colorado front range
I have a similar issue more often than not with my Dell XPS8700 reading cards thru the computer’s SD slot. In this particle Dell, the driver is the culprit 99% of the time. I’ve since resigned myself to using an adapter and a USB 3 port. Not as convenient but definitely more reliable.
Traveller_Jeff wrote:
Is the following an option with that camera? Email the pix you want to yourself directly from the camera. Use a google ISP address for 25 meg capacity. It’s slow but better than nothing. It’s how I download photos from my iPhone. Hope that’s helpful.
A thought...if you use LR you can download iPhone photos directly from the phone as if it were a card or disk. You can also use air drop with an iPhone.
The SD card readers in the computer are always a crap shoot. Problems with some not supporting both SD and SDHC and different drivers on Windows updates, etc. Just buy a USB card reader and your worries will be over.
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