working with digital images

You can connect a digital image source, such as a digital camera or a digital video camera, directly to the PC or through a docking station. Digital picture files you copy or download from the device appear in the My Pictures folder. You can copy digital picture files from the memory cards used by digital cameras and other digital imaging devices by using the 7-In-1 memory card reader (select models only). Refer to “about the 7-in-1 memory card reader” on page 50.

about the 7-in-1 memory card reader

Digital cameras and other digital imaging devices use memory cards, or media, to store digital picture files. The optional 7-In-1 memory card reader (select models only) can read and can write to six types of memory cards and the IBM Microdrive disk drive.

The card reader is accessible on the front of the PC. It has four horizontal card slots which accept the memory cards and the microdrive disk drive.

Card

4-slot Reader

 

 

CompactFlash™ type I media

Lower left slot

 

 

CompactFlash type II media

Lower left slot

 

 

IBM Microdrive disk drive

Lower left slot

 

 

Secure Digital (SD) Memory Card

Upper right slot

 

 

MultiMediaCard (MMC)

Upper right slot

 

 

Memory Stick® (MS) Memory Card

Lower right slot

 

 

SmartMedia™ (SM) Memory Card

Upper left slot

 

 

You can place media in one or more of the card slots and use each media independently. Place only one piece of media in a slot at one time.

Each card slot has its own drive letter and icon. When you insert media, the display label may change to the title of the media, if the title is present.

special note about the safely remove hardware utility

CAUTION: Do not click Stop in the Safely Remove Hardware window with the USB Mass Storage Device selected. Doing so removes the operating system recognition of the 7-In-1 memory card reader from your PC; you must restart the PC to see your memory card reader again.

If you open the Safely Remove Hardware window by mistake, click Close.

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