A few months ago, I put an xd-picture card (I think that’s what it’s called) in the internal card reader on my Presario V2000. I left it there, and forgot about it, and its been in there ever since.
Today, I rediscovered its presence, and tried to pull it out. But it seems to be stuck.
The card can be read from and written to. But I can not pull it out of the slot. I’ve tried pushing it, as some card readers have you push the card in in order to pull it out, but that doesn’t work. I’ve tried simply pulling on the card with all the brute force my fingernails can muster, but that doesn’t work. I’ve searched all over for an eject button, but to no avail.
So… has this ever happened to anybody before? Any suggestions?
My wife’s kind of pissed at me. The card is the backup for her digital camera… :smack:
Is the card reader unit removable from the machine? (i.e. in a drive bay or something?) - if so, I’d take the whole thing out and carefully open it to see what’s caused the jam.
I’m trying to remember how I removed xD cards from my Jurassic-era digital camera. I have a feeling it was a slight push inwards to release the catch and then a slow release.
OK, it looks as though there’s a notch on the left side of the card - presumably some kind of spring latch grabs this when the card is inserted and I’m guessing that it’s this latch that has seized. My inclination would be to take a very thin piece of stiff plastic and try sliding it into the slot on top of the card; push the card in and slide the plastic piece to the left to see if you can disengage the latch.
The other possibility is that the card has been pushed too far into the device - perhaps by some inadvertent impact, but the fact that it can still be read/written would seem to suggest against this.
The label could have curled some sticky side up. Sometimes the cards fit realy extremely tight, like I found with my camera and mother’s printer’s card slot. I thought I’d break it pulling it out, and it did flex slightly before I could grip hard enough to pull it out.
Some readers need to have the stick pushed in and released to pop out of the reader.
I think you should read the manual, to prevent breakage, and or send the manufacture a requst in email, after using their online FAQs and Trouble Shooting Guide.
This just dismounts the volume from the OS, not physically eject the media.
If all else fails:
Shut off the laptop and remove the batteries.
Get a small pair of pliers and give it a pull. You may end up breaking the card and or the reader, but neither are serving their purpose in their current state.
If you can’t get tweezers or pliers round it then you might try smearing superglue to the end of a paperclip or even a small screwdriver and holding it to the card end. Unless it’sreally well jammed this will probably give a strong enough hold to pull it out.
Looking forward to the ‘How to remove a superglued screwdriver from a CF card’ thread
Where’s your spirit of adventure? Asking a bunch of amatuers on a message board is one thing, but asking for profesional help, just no no no. Don’t do it man, better to break the thing than admit you can’t sort it yourself
