My HP Photosmart C4180 All-in-One has an integrated card reader. USB Safely Remove 4.7 doesn't seem to handle it like other card readers, though. For one thing, the empty drive letter is not hidden in Windows Explorer; much more curiously, when I plug in a card, its icon in the Safely Remove menu is a webcam.
It works fine otherwise and it's just a cosmetic issue, but I thought I should report it anyway. I can provide more information if you want.
EDIT: Sorry, I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit and while I have a number of hard drives and other USB devices connected, I have never used a webcam on this computer before.
Hello,
USB Safely Remove may not detect one slot card readers as card reader one. If you wish that it has the behavior of the card reader you should set this option manually in the device properties:
The icon also may not be detected correctly because this device is composite and the system report us that it's a an imaging device. Anyway feel free to post here device Technical Information (the same name of the tab in the device properties) so that I can review it to be sure.
I should clarify that this isn't a "one slot card reader"; it actually has four slots. And I also just realized that USB Safely Remove isn't detecting it as a card reader at all! Unlike a normal card reader, there's no option to allow me to "stop" the card without "stopping" the reader, even though the drive letter still shows up next to the device in the USB Safely Remove menu, regardless of whether there's a card in it or not. Does that make sense?
Aslo, the "Is this device a card reader?" dropdown is greyed out in the device properties.
Unfortunately the system (hardware drivers) doesn't tell us that this device is a card reader (have removable media). Moreover the device information doesn't contain any references to other card reader's slots. So I don't think we can do more for your device.
BTW, does your system shows "Eject" command in the drive K: context menu?
It doesn't actually disappear from My Computer if I use the Eject command when there's no card inserted, but otherwise Windows just says the device can be safely removed can gives no error message.
When there's no card inserted, the Properties page shows it as having a capacity of 0 bytes.
Kwyjor wrote:It doesn't actually disappear from My Computer if I use the Eject command when there's no card inserted, but otherwise Windows just says the device can be safely removed can gives no error message.
When there's no card inserted, the Properties page shows it as having a capacity of 0 bytes.
Could you take a short experiment, please?
1. Insert the card into this card reader
2. Eject it using the native Windows function. Doesn't remove the card physically
3. Go to My Computer and try to browse the ejected drive. Do you see this drive's contents?
Well, it changes when there's a card inserted. Here, I made an image:
That's before inserting a card, after inserting a card, and after using the Windows Eject function without removing the card physically.
I get a "Please insert a disk into Removeable Disk K:" message.
Actually, it's behaving properly all of a sudden and hiding K: when there's no card inserted; I was messing around with the App-V services (Client Virtualization Handler, Application Virtualization Client, and Application Virtualization Service Agent) trying to solve an unrelated problem, and that might have something to do with it. But I still can't do the equivalent of the Explorer "Eject" command from the USB Safely Remove menu.