Windows 10: My new Acer laptop with Windows 11 everytime I try to use a card reader to download my...

When I put my card readers into the USB slots on the laptop it keeps putting a pop up saying You need to format the disk in drive :E before you can use it. giving you the option to format or cancel. Obviously I don't want to format the SD card as this would wipe the photos off it any Ideas would be greatly appreciated

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Problem with card readers after mirgration to Win10

Hi Peter,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I would suggest you try the following steps and see if it helps.

Method 1: Run Hardware and Devices Troubleshooter

Follow the steps below:

1. Press Windows key + X and select Control Panel.

2. Change View by from Category to Small Icons/Large Icons.

3. Click on Troubleshooting.

4. Select Hardware and Devices and follow the on-screen instructions.

Method 2: Update Card reader driver

Follow the steps below.

• Press Windows key + X and click on
  Device Manager.
• Search for your card reader driver.
• Right-click on the Card reader driver and select
  Update Driver Software.
• Restart your system

Method 3: Uninstall and then re-install Card reader driver

Follow the steps below.

• Press Windows key + X and click on
  Device Manager.
• Search for your card reader driver.
• Right-click on the Card reader driver
  and select Uninstall.
• Restart your system.
• Let you system scan for new hardware and install relevant driver for your card reader.

Hope this helps. Please respond if you have further related queries.

Regards,

 

internal sd card reader on acer laptop

since upgrade to win 10 from win 7, internal card reader no longer found, acer 5742

 

Fingerprint reader not working on Windows 11 - Acer, Aspire

The fingerprint reader is not working on Windows 11

I recently updated my laptop with Windows 11, but the fingerprint reader was not working and appears not to be working with windows hello. The option to add a finger or remove the fingerprint is there and it gets me to enter my pin but then it disappears immediately. and I tried these steps ( Go to Device Manager-Expand the Biometric driver or Human Interface Device -Look for the Fingerprint driver that was an installed-Right click and Update-Look for "Browse my computer for driver-Let me pick drivers available drivers-Choose an old driver and use it.) But it did not work I tried to uninstall the biometric Finger driver and still did not work.

My laptop is Acer - Aspire5-- A515-54.