Hello Shanda: Based on your description, if I understand you correctly, you've never been able to use the Book Port on this one computer, in particular and when you connect, you do see it as a Removable Drive letter? If I'm understanding correctly, then you have an incompatible chipset. You're only alternatives are to use another computer or to go out and purchase a card, which will give you a compatible USB port. You would then plug the Book Port into the port on the card itself, rather than the ports on your PC. Incidentally, you might want to also remove your Card Reader, as they can also get in the way. If I'm missing anything, let me know, but that's what you need to do next. Pamela Rader, TECHNICAL SUPPORT American Printing House For The Blind 1839 Frankfort Ave. Louisville, KY 40206 PHONE: 1-800-223-1839, Ext. 307 >>> living4Jesus4ever@xxxxxxxxxxx 04/14/07 04:06PM >>> hello all, I have reformatted the compact flash card several times, both within the bookport and in a reader. I went and bought a brand new pack of batteries today and put those in... The computer still sees the bookport as a drive, but the transfer software, spider, and book wizard reader do not see it as being connected. I've tried absolutely everything I can think of, everything all of you have suggested, and everything listed within the manual. Should it matter in any way that I did not install the transfer software from a CD but from the website or that my firmware revision is so so far back thus maybe it won't work with this transfer software? It still seems to be popping up the update window for a split second even though it is telling me Bookport disconnected, and then the window goes away. Any further suggestions, yall? Thanks so much, Shanda