So I am trying to connect my Sony Camera with my laptop with a USB plug. When I plugged it into the USB port, I hear the sound from my laptop meaning that it’s recognized. However, it is not found in My Computer. I went to Disk Management after searching for solutions in Google and so I changed the drive letters but nothing worked. It is still No Media. Just to let you know I am using Windows 7 and my USB port is not damaged. I tried with other USB plugs and it worked. I am already in my admin account, which is the only account in this laptop. I am trying to import the pictures from the camera into my laptop. Is there another way to have the Removable Disk appear in Computer?
I also found out that when I clicked "Devices and Printers" in Control Panel, the Sony Camera does appear there, as Sony DSC. So I right-clicked it > Browse Files, and tried too click Removable Disk (V:). But it is not clickable!
Then I went to Windows Media Player and tried to open the files in the camera. In there, I can see "Removable Disk". I clicked it and "Please insert a disk into Removable Disk (V:)" pops up.
Please tell me some other suggestions I can do to try to fix this. I connected the camera to my laptop and it worked just fine last time. This happened when I tried yesterday. I also tried it at two other laptops and it worked there, but how come not in mine?
I did the restarting method but nothing changed. Also, I don’t think the memory card in the camera is locked since it is able to connect to the other two laptops I have tried.
Printer Media, Computers & Internet
July 19th, 2011 on 12:14 pm
Restart in Safe Mode*
Open Device Manager, click Start, and then click Control Panel. Double-click System. On the Hardware tab, click Device Manager.
Double click ‘Universal Serial Bus Controllers’. Right click on the ‘Host Controller’, click Uninstall and click OK for each instance. Don’t worry, Windows will re-build them.
Restart normally and try again.
*Note: On start up (before Windows loads) keep tapping either F5 or F8 (be aware that some manufacturers use F8 for system recovery!) then use arrow keys to highlight ‘Safe Mode with networking’ and hit Enter/Return, click on a user account, enter the Administrator password (if you don’t know it, there probably isn’t one so leave it blank) and hit Enter/Return.
© arou42
July 19th, 2011 on 12:14 pm
download the software for your camera from the sony website http://esupport.sony.com/perl/selectsystem.plDIRECTOR=DRIVER&SR=nav:service_support:electronics:drivers_software:esup find your camera and download it