On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 21:56, Robert L Cochran wrote: > My wife is the picture expert in the family -- she has tens of thousands > of photos, all taken with digicams using compact flash cards. I don't > think Windows 2000 works well with USB devices which is what most card > readers are. (I have a drive with Windows 2000 installed, but don't use > it at all. It's sitting on my shop table right now.) You are much, much > better off using either Linux or Windows XP. I'm sorry, but win2k works PERFECTLY with USB devices, I'd have to say there is something wrong with your setup if even a mass storage devices doesn't work. That said, I'd also recommend Linux, I would NOT recommend XP though, far to many big brother issues with that piece of software. TTYL ----------------------------- Herbert's PIC Stuff: http://repatch.dyndns.org:8383/pic_stuff/ _______________________________________________ http://www.piclist.com View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist