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    G53JW card reader visibility?

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by kimiraikkonen, Jul 14, 2011.

  1. kimiraikkonen

    kimiraikkonen Notebook Evangelist

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    kimiraikkonen, Jul 14, 2011
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    Why should it report a drive when there is no media inserted?
     
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    kimiraikkonen Notebook Evangelist

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    Actually neither this is the question nor the answer. I saw lots of usb card readers and they would show up as they are supposed even they do not have media inserted, but for some reason though you uncheck the thickbox that i mentioned above, it still doesn't show up till you insert media which means this Windows feature is broken or incompatible with some card readers. That is an inconsistency. That is why i want to know the reason of this with confirmation.(does yours behave in same way?)
     
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    Kimiraikonen, Good point, on my G73 I have the same issue as stated. When I look at device manager, with an SD card inserted, I see a USB disk appear under disk drives, and Portable Devices Catagory show up also -- F:\
    Once I eject it both disappear. I guess it works the same way a typical USB thumb drive appears in this respect.
     
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    Thanks Josea for your interest. I really surprised why this Windows setting has no effect. It seems i am not alone about this.
     
    kimiraikkonen, Jul 14, 2011
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    Yes. I have the same problem but every computer I checked was like this. And I thought it was supposed to be like this.
     
    FlyingFalcon, Jul 15, 2011
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    kimiraikkonen,
    This is a normal behavior for the most of the integrated card readers so you cannot do anything in this case. The hardware itself doesn't add the device into the system until you insert the card into it. You can try USB Safely Remove though it's more wise USB device manager than the Windows' one and may help in your case.
     
    Oksi, Jul 21, 2011
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