Compact Flash and Vista Weird Quirk

[thegpfury]

So, I have a laptop and a desktop. Both running Vista Home Premium. On the laptop, I've been using a PCMCIA adapter to copy pictures off my compact flash card (rebel xti only supports CF), and whenever I put in the card, the system grinds to a halt and runs extremely slowly whenever I'm doing anything on the card. I figured it was a problem with the compact flash reader and didn't think much of it.

However, on my desktop I have a card reader built in (one of the ones that plugs into the usb headers on the motherboard), and it worked fine under XP. When I upgraded to Vista, it started doing the same thing, running extremely slowly whenever I tried copying files off of it. Only way I can do it semi-quickly is to use the commandline, but that's not really ideal.

I don't think it has anything to do with system specs, as my desktop is a Phenom 9600 with 4gb of ram. I have all the latest updates for Vista and all that.

Anyone have the same problem or any ideas of what I could do to fix it?

 

[robisbell]

go back to XP.

 

[thegpfury]

Believe it or not, I'm one of the 4 people who actually likes Vista. Aside from this one problem, it's run perfectly for me.

So, if there is a solution for this problem that doesn't involve switching operating systems...... 😛

 

[corkyg]

Try a USB reader/writer.

 

[thegpfury]

Alright, I'll see if I can get my hands on one.

Technically, the integrated one is a usb reader/writer though...

 

[jaythespacehound]

At a guess theres a problem with the drivers for it for Vista... see if there's new drivers? (it may be using generic ones...)

 

[thegpfury]

Checked for drivers for the card reader, doesn't seem to be anything new. It's weird. It's one of those multi-format readers. SD and MS both read fine, just not CF. No idea.

It's more of a nuisance than anything else. I'm just gonna keep using my batch file I guess.