possible serious problem with CF cards/readers/WinXP??

[Maverick2002]

Ok, this is just plain weird. Last night one of my CF cards at home got corrupted when I tried to take pictures with my Canon camera. Lots of weird problems followed when I tried to read it in my PC using a card reader (basically my comp wouldn't recognize the card).

Now, today at work I just took some more photos with a CF card in a Nikon camera, put it in a card reader, and the PC wouldn't recognize it! I re-inserted the card back into the camera, and now the camera says there are no files on the card.

These are entirely different locations, computers, cameras, CF cards, and readers.

Maybe there's some new glitch in WinXP SP2?? A vulnerability? A virus??

Or maybe this is all just a terrible coincidence.

Could a few of you please take some pictures with your camera and use your CF card in your card reader and let me know if you have the same problem?

 

[foofoo]

just did it last night - no problems
bad luck and coincidence?

 

[LTC8K6]

No problems at work or at home with XP SP2.

I did have a card reader quit on me and I had to update the firmware on one to read cards that are 256MB and up.

 

[DanDrop]

Did you try to reformat the CF card? Maybe that would solve the problem. Also, i had a viking card reader that turned out to be faulty, maybe you could try another card reader and see if it does the same thing.