Has anyone had any trouble getting it to read from the USB Drive? Hi! I just got mine, and I am testing it out to make sure everything works. Although the card reader works great, when I put my 1 gig usb drive in and select USB it says "reading USB drive" then "no USB drive." I've tried a couple and it does this on both. Does it require a special type of USB drive or am I doing something wrong? Has anyone had any trouble getting it to read from the USB Drive? Hi! I just got mine, and I am testing it out to make sure everything works. Although the card reader works great, when I put my 1... » Read More Has anyone had any trouble getting it to read from the USB Drive? Hi! I just got mine, and I am testing it out to make sure everything works. Although the card reader works great, when I put my 1 gig usb drive in and select USB it says "reading USB drive" then "no USB drive." I've tried a couple and it does this on both. Does it require a special type of USB drive or am I doing something wrong? « Show Less
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Yup- need to have some data on there...it helps!Too bad the SD card reader is limited to SD and won't play the newer SDHC. So the card reader is limited to 2 gigs. Somewhat useful but not supe-useful for video as many of those files or folders are well over 2 gigs.
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My Coby TF-DVD7377 reads and plays USB flash sticks with no problem. The ones I'm using are an 8-gig Lexar (for video) and a 4-gig Dane-Elec (for MP3 music). I do not currently own one of the newer USB-powered external hard drives, so I cannot comment on that. However, this Coby player is able to read and play files from my five-year-old Western Digital 80-gig hard drive (the WD drive is powered by an AC adapter).
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I dunno if it's a formatting thing, but I tried to plug in my portable 120GB external drive, and it blanked. My 1GB stick came up with a menu though, so there's gotta be a size limit somewhere, I just don't know where it it.
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Man those were the days. John Belushi, Dan Akroyd, Gilda Radner, Lorraine Newman, Garret Morris, Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, Eddie MurphyDifferent world back then. Wild and crazy days.I imagine that if everyone acted today in the manner that people typically conducted themselves in 1978- that about 90% of the population would get sent to jail very quickly!But I digress. Good luck with the unit. Post a comment if you find out anything about spare batteries.
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Okay, I feel like an idiot! It turns out that there was nothing actually on the flash drives I tried. I loaded music, pics, and a Divx, and voila, it read all three of them just fine! Or in the words of Emily Latella -- Never mind.
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I don't think it is! I believe you could get a 16 gig USB drive- they are around $25-35 now.There's a whole technology inside each of these devices. The SD protocol is different than SDHC protocol. It would be interesting to get my 8 gig micro SDHC card and put it into a USB adapter and see if that runs!
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DaOtter-The device will not read from an external hard drive. (too bad because that would truly be awesome!) Only USB flash memory. I have used up to 8 gigs with no problems. I would imagine that the new 16 or 32 gig sticks would be fine as well.I've found that using microSDHC cards with the tiny USB adapter works great. You get 8 gigs of SanDisk memory for around $15 with a form-factor that sticks out less than a standard USB flash drive. Theoretically you could also use the microSDHC in a phone or mp3 player as well.
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See new post in the "Spare Batteries" discussion.Great deal too!8 gig microSDHC continues to work great in a USB adapter! No problems.Another advantage to this setup is that the SanDisk 8 gig microSDHC are now 13 bucks on amazon!And, even with the micro USB reader, it's still way smaller than a standard USB thumb drive! (important because of how it sticks out from the side) And it's cheaper than a SanDisk 8 gig USB thumb drive too! AND I can still use the micro card in my mp3 player!Talk about having your cake and eat it too.
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How did you get a CF Card into a USB Port? If you used an adapter then the problem might be with that. With CF cards don't you need a CF Card Reader? I have a couple of SanDisk 8GB USB's and they seem to work well with the UNITEK 3 Port USB hub.
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I always remove the SD card and insert into computer...skip the cable. I've never tried the USB cable.
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Same problem, I thought it was my memory card but then I tried the card in another reader, No problems. The elego disconnects and reconnects.I ran the crystal benchmark on 2 of my microsdhc cards. Much higher read speeds on the same cards in comparison to my other readers. I was surprised that the small file write scores showed that the Elgo reader was somewhat slower. Of course, it also disconnected and reconnected a couple of times.
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Hi there, only to let you know that I bought 2 of them about 2 years ago I have replaced both with other brands, because a usb port failure. My advice find another brand. Thanks
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Get yourself an sd/mmc card reader. Remove the card from your MiCorder, place it into the reader and place the reader into the usb port. Also, with the cord that came with the MiCorder, plug that into the MiCorder and the other into the computer's usb port. Both options worked fine for me. Good Luck!
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I have a 128 gb card in mine mine. I have had no issues with the card at all. I transfer a lot of music and video files frequently..never had a single issue with card reader.
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I don't know if there are quality issues with the product, but the one I purchased still works fine. Could it be operator error? You do have to have a card in the reader for your computer to recognize it. The reader is just an interface between the card and computer, nothing more.
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My opinion is, the one I bought did not work at all. It did nothing. It says its compatible with anything that has a standard USB but I couldn't get it to function at all. Had several genius folks look at it and still got nothing.
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You'll first need a USB port to plug the card reader into. Afterthat it's a software issue.
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I can"t get it to read my Extreme III 4 gb card either. Any Help? I have been to San Disc site and have the latest firmware Im told so how do I make it work? Sadly I have camaras with SD, xD, and CF so I was really likeing this reader until it wouldnt read my Extreme III card.
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I use easy ACC super speed USB. It comes with two slots for card reader. It's great you can buy at Amazon for $7.95.Good luck
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I had the same problem. If you don't want to buy the Fuji made card reader that works for it, I found the Lexar RW023 will read it. This is a card reader/ flashcard unit. It retails for $20 from Lexar, but I have seen it as low as $14 other places online. Good Luck! Peggy
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Your question is not clear! From what I understand, the other functions of this unit WORK; but the USB alone is not OK, correct??/ If that is the case, you will have to try attaching another device in the USB slot and see if it works and much the same way, try the device on some other port on another connection in the computer and see if it works!! I do not think there is a categorical answer to your question!!!
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I do have problem with this card when using USB 3.0 card reader with my CF cards, regardless Sandisk, Lexar, or Komputer Bay, it keep eject and mount as a loop. I am getting very frustrated now with this card.
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Well, it's a manual device, so if you pull the card through at an extremely slow or fast rate of speed, you could have an issue with it. I can tell you we have never had an issue with the device reading cards.
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I don't know. My first guess would be: Is the card firmly in the slot? Is the card any good? Is the card locked? (Little tab thingie on the side.) Can you read the card on your or any other computer? Are you feeding the pictures picture side up? Have you plugged in a usb cable and seen if it even scans? Does the unit even power up as per the instruction sheet?