Toshiba laptop, dvd/cd drive is not recognized, niether is the built in card reader, all usb ports are operational.

Flash Drive or SD Cards? Flash Drive is where you put the mechanism into a USB Port. SD Cards are where you might take the card out of a camera and stick it into the SD Card Reader Slot on the computer.

Which one are you saying is not working? If its the SD Card Reader, go download and reinstall the driver again.
Get onlineand got to www.google.com In the google search box type: "ToshibaSupport" (without the quotes and put your manufacturer name before Support). Look for downloads and drivers. Enter your model number and operatingsystem when requested. Download and install the Card Reader drivers.If all fails maybe your card reader has gone bad. You can always purchase one for under $10 that plugs into the USB Port. When the site below comes up just type: SD Card Reader in the white search box and hit GO. The link is below:

http://www.tigerdirect.com

hi

if you need the specs for the toshiba a50 here they are. hope this helps please let me know




Motherboard chipset
Intel 855GME




Centrino
Yes




Processor speed
1.5GHz




Processor
Pentium M

Memory/Storage

Amt of RAM
256 MB (max 2048 MB)




Hard drive
40 GB




Optical drive
DVD/CD-RW combo drive

Connectivity

Ports
2 x USB 2.0, FireWire, Ethernet, modem, VGA port,
parallel port, microphone and headphone audio jacks




Bluetooth
No




Infrared
No




Modem
V.90 compliant 56K modem (V.92 ready)




Built-in devices
Type II PC Card slot, 802.11b/g wireless LAN




Wireless LAN
802.11b, 802.11g




Webcam
No

Display

Graphics hardware
Intel 855 GME integrated graphics controller 4x AGP bus





Amt of video RAM
16 - 64MB shared memory




Diagonal screen size
15 inch




LCD technology
Active matrix TFT




Screen resolution (max)
1024 x 768

Multimedia

Remote
No




DVD/MP3 without bootup
No




TV tuner
No




Sound hardware
16-bit stereo SoundBlaster Pro, Built-in stereo speaker
with SRS TruSurround XT Sound Technology




Jacks
mic-in, earphone-out

Software

Operating system
Win XP Pro




Software included
Microsoft Office OneNote 2003, InterVideo WinDVD, Sonic
RecordNow! CD/DVD Writing Software

Chassis

Weight w/battery
2.8 kg




Dimensions
338 x 274 x 38 mm

Power
Supply

Battery type(s) included
6-Cells Lithium-Ion




Mfr-claimed battery life
4 hours

On your model it does not have a dvd/cd rom built in. You will need to buy a external dvd/cd drive and hook it up through your usb port. Go into your operating system, then plug in the cable into the usb port. Turn on the Dvd/Cd, and windows should pop up of a hardware detect. If disc if provide with the external dvd/cd drive, use that and install the driver from that cd, you should be good to go.

Sounds like your laptop's USB ports are not capable of providing enough power to operate your card reader or pen drive. I suggest you buy an active USB hub (one with external power source, rather than the one which draws power from the laptop's USB port), & attach your card reader and/or pen drive to that USB hub.

Although your drive: http://sdd.toshiba.com/main.aspx?Path=StorageSolutions/1.8-inchHardDiskDrives/MK2006GAL

physically fits into one of the slots in that Card Reader, it is not making any "electronic" connections, i.e,. no power is reaching the Toshiba, and no "data" cable is connected from the Toshiba to the Card Reader.

Similarly, although you can fill your automobile's gas-tank with water, there still is a fundamental "incompatibility" to be overcome.

Yes, Windows is recognizing that you connected a USB device into a USB port on your computer, but that's all that has happened, from Windows "point-of-view".

The best way to download pictures from your camera to your computer involves removing the memory card from the camera and plugging it into a card reader (either built-in to the computer or connected via USB or FireWire). This is likely to be faster than connecting the camera to the computer, and won't run down your camera's batteries.

Once the card is plugged in, it will appear to your computer as a removable drive. You can use the operating system's drag&drop facility to copy pictures from the card to the computer's hard drive.

There are also plenty of photo catalog software packages out there, some free, some not, that can transfer and catalog your pictures so you can quickly find pictures from Susie's birthday party, for example. Just do a google search for "photo catalog software".

Hello,

What I suspect here is that, the USB port that you are using is a USB 1.0 port, which has a lower voltage not enough to power on your Storage drive.

In this case, there are two things you can do,

1. Change the USB port you are using for the storage drive to a USB 2.0 one (Just keep Checking all the ports one by one in case you dont know which one it is).

2. If your Storage drive has external power facility, just plug it in an external power first, before connecting it to the system.

If there are no USB 2.0 Ports on your system at all,

then just go to any electronic store and tell them you want to buy a USB 2.0 Expansion card.

and if it is a laptop, A USB 2.0 PCMCIA card.

Install it on your system, and connect your external drive through it.

Hope this helps you out.

Goodluck

i think your sd card reader has damage and you need to change it
i hope i can solve your problem

Try to search in Bios.

install the driver of ur usb agfa 780c, and try to restart your laptop....before you duck it in..