HD DV Key Chain Camera DVR Recorder Camcorders #11 H808

Flyboy152

I have recently taken delivery of this item and connected it to the PC. The little box at the bottom of the screen came up with "Your device is ready to use," but I can't find it anywhere. Can any of you very knowledgeable and helpful people help me find it?

I am on Vista.

P.S. I am totally techie illiterate.

Bowling_4_Gold

Are you trying to use it as a webcam?

Are you trying to transfer videos off it?

If it is latter, press Start, press Computer, and there you should see lots of clickable things. Look for one called 'Removable Disk (F: )' (or similar, should be towards top right corner). Double press on that, double press on DCIM, double press on '100MEDIA' and your videos should be there.

Flyboy152

Bowling_4_Gold wrote: »

Are you trying to use it as a webcam?

Are you trying to transfer videos off it?

If it is latter, press Start, press Computer, and there you should see lots of clickable things. Look for one called 'Removable Disk (F: )' (or similar, should be towards top right corner). Double press on that, double press on DCIM, double press on '100MEDIA' and your videos should be there.

Thanks for the reply Bowling, I have looked on all drives (G through to K) but there is nothing there (I have plugged it in, unplugged and plugged it back in, I have rebooted and plugged it in, but still nothing). But, during my searches earlier today, I think I recall seeing a folder titled "100media," but right now, I can't remember where, or if I really did see it. :embarasse :huh: Is there a way of searching for it (I have used the search facility in "computer" and "control panel," but can't find anything, unless, of course, I am not searching in the right places).

fwor

The fact that your drive letters start at G: looks suspicious. Do these drive letters definitely appear and disappear when you connect and remove the device, or are they there all the time?

IIRC there is a problem with some versions of Windows which causes drives (and their associated drive letters) to cease to be visible.

With XP you could use the Microsoft tool TweakUI to make them visible again, but I'm not sure if MS do an equivalent for Vista.

Flyboy152

fwor wrote: »

The fact that your drive letters start at G: looks suspicious. Do these drive letters definitely appear and disappear when you connect and remove the device, or are they there all the time?

IIRC there is a problem with some versions of Windows which causes drives (and their associated drive letters) to cease to be visible.

With XP you could use the Microsoft tool TweakUI to make them visible again, but I'm not sure if MS do an equivalent for Vista.

Sorry, my bad, they actually start at "F."

The HDD is C, the partition is D, the DVD is E and the removeable storage drives go from F through to K.

Does that make any more sense (or any sense at all )

fwor

It depends what other hardware you have on the PC. If those drives appear and disappear when you plug and unplug the camera then that's where you need to look. If they are always there then they may just relate to a memory card reader that's also connected (each slot typically appears as a separate drive letter).

santer_2

Worth a go

http://support.microsoft.com/mats/hardware_device_problems/

pendulum

I have this camera. Check the MicroSD card is fully inserted and clicked into the camera. First time I unwrapped and plugged mine in without the MicroSD a similar thing happened.
Out of interest what are you using it for. Dash cam?

Flyboy152

pendulum wrote: »

I have this camera. Check the MicroSD card is fully inserted and clicked into the camera. First time I unwrapped and plugged mine in without the MicroSD a similar thing happened.

I am off to to Sainsbury's to get one. I kind of assumed (I don't know why) it would have its own internal memory and the SD card was an expanded memory.

Out of interest what are you using it for. Dash cam?

Too right....I am fed up with near misses that could have cost me what remains of my NCD. Last year I had two collisions on the same country lane, on the same day, at almost exactly the same place. Then in April, I had another, fortunately the woman admitted it was her fault when I was filming with my phone. She had mistook the accelerator for the brake. I believe the traffic police have a term for this phenomenon, I think it should be "old-farts-shouldn't-be allowed-to-drive-syndrome," (tin hat on ) but I think theirs is a little more polite.

I have no choice but to use this road, as the school is on it.

pendulum

Same reason I bought mine.

It is better to get a Class 4 or faster MicroSD card. If you get a slower one, the camera may not be able to save the data fast enough and the quality can be affected.

Sainsbury's may not be the best place for this... online at Play.com you can get a 16Gb Class 4 for £12.99 delivered. 16Gb gives you approximately 5 hours recording time which I find is plenty, but the camera takes up to 32Gb MicroSD cards.

They are great cameras for the money.

Flyboy152

pendulum wrote: »

Same reason I bought mine.

It is better to get a Class 4 or faster MicroSD card. If you get a slower one, the camera may not be able to save the data fast enough and the quality can be affected.

Sainsbury's may not be the best place for this... online at Play.com you can get a 16Gb Class 4 for £12.99 delivered. 16Gb gives you approximately 5 hours recording time which I find is plenty, but the camera takes up to 32Gb MicroSD cards.

They are great cameras for the money.

I only suggested a cheap one for the time being, to see if that was the problem. I need one for another device anyway, so it won't go to waste.

Besides, I saw that my local Sainsbury's is selling Sandiscs at a discount.