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August 22nd, 2020 19:00
Internal SD Card Reader Not Working
On my Dell Inspiron 580 desktop after I insert my SD card into the slot, I try to maneuver to my pictures, but with no luck. It'll recognize the card, but I get an error dialog box that says "Location is not available" and in that box it says, "E:\DCIM is not accessible. The device is not ready." I've never had this problem before. When I go to insert the card into my Dell Inspiron 17R laptop though, I have no problems at all. The same error and result happens no matter what SD card I use. Changing the drive letter doesn't help either. Both systems are running Windows 10 Home. Any ideas of what might be causing this issue?
RoHe
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August 24th, 2020 18:00
First, back up all the files on the SD card onto the other PC, to be safe.
Plug the SD card into this PC. Open Device Manager and see if there's any "Unknown" device listed or if the SD card reader ("Multiple card reader USB device" under Disk Drive in Device Manager) is listed and if it has a ! next to its name. If there's an unknown or a !, right-click it and Uninstall that device. Then click Action>scan for hardware changes on toolbar and reboot.
If that doesn't help, open a CMD prompt window, run as administrator. At the CMD prompt, type in:
takeown /f E:\ /A /R /D Y and press Enter.
Note: "E:\" in that command should be the current drive letter assigned to the SD card reader. And include all the spaces when you type the command. When it's done, close the CMD window and reboot to see if that fixes it...