Thanks in advance for any help. Ok, so I have a Canon SD-10 digital camera. My PC runs on windows 2000. The problem is, when I connect my camera to my PC via USB, the camera does not show up as an external drive on my computer (so that I can drag and drop files, etc.). On my other PC, which is still running on windows 98, when I connect my Olympus digital camera on it via USB, the camera shows up as an external drive. On my Win 2000 machine, I installed all the proper software and drivers, etc. for the canon camera.

Instead, I have to use the included software to download the pictures from the camera to a folder on my PC. If I can just read the camera as a drive, I can cut out the extra step of going through some canon software. So I'm wondering if this has something to with Windows 2000 not allowing you to read cameras as an external drive or what?

Thanks!

 

Do normal usb cards show up as an extra drive? There should be no reason why a camera would be any different. Perhaps you should uninstall the drivers and try again?

 

hmm, not sure.. should the camera be in playback mode for it to detect the external driv e? (or in a certain mode?) or should it not matter? Get back to us if you figured it out!

 

It should have a "connect" mode so that it speaks to the computer, I thought about that but made the assumption that he understood that because it worked for him on the other computer.

 

I have a Canon PowerShot S500 and I run Windows XP. The Canon software works great.

 

For my canon eos 10d, I have to turn the camera on.

 

I have a Canon Powershot G3, and I'm also running Windows 2000 on my desktop. You have to use Canon's (Zoombrowser) software.

If you use XP, you can take advantage of the "PTP" communications mode on your camera (well, on mine, I'm assuming yours support the feature as well) to accomplish what you described.

However there are certain things that the Canon software will do for you when transferring that won't be done when you simply drag and drop images from the camera to your hard drive (e.g., auto rotating the images).