In a message dated 7/3/2004 10:43:21 AM Central Standard Time, avbsantos@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes: The camera should always be listed as a device and not as a "drive", for it is not a jump drive, it is a camera, whence your problems. Sandy........ an off the wall question.... by chance... have you ever used one of those new little keychain thngies that stores files?.... seems they get installed automaticlly as a drive by xp when you do.... they are the usb connected external drives......and....... xp sets the usb port to see them as an external drives.... and since your camera uses the basiclly same type memory device as they use...... just possibly may have decdied that is the way it has to be.....I have one of the drives... and my son uses it at times on my pc...... seems he installed drivers for it when he connected it up on my .... in my case it set a file named sm1bg.(exe) ....without the quotes.... in my windows system folder.... created a bit of havoc until I discovered that oddball named file there ... deleted it and problems ended...... the drivers for those devices are not needed by xp ... only for 98 and ME...... and if installed in xp create problems........ just a rhought..... chuck... in ok