Getting my picture

[lone_star]

Alright, I finally decided to try and get my picture on the net, but once i took a pic and tried to put it on the computer, nothing started.
When I first put the card in, it went straight to something that allowed me to choose what i do with the pictures, but after that, nothing, it even stopped recognizing it had the drive I put the card in.

Here's a list of what I got.
Windows XP
Nikon Coolpix 950
Lexar Media 32 mb Compact Flash High-Speed 4X card
Compact Flash Drive.
On the camera it says "THIS CARD CANNOT BE USED" and I now can't delete the pictures I took, which connects me to the card breaking making me even more in trouble with my parents.
Can anybody help me?

[XS4Xevr]

Last Resort (only $1 right now and a day to go):
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=43477&item=3825525798&rd=1
There's actually a great many LEXAR cards there of all sizes and many of them cheap.

As far as what XP did, my Crystal Ball isn't working today, or maybe it never will when it comes to what's behind the 'Mystery Windows'. I do know that if I use XP to record on a CD-RW disk at work to back something up, my Windows 98SE at home cannot add to the disk using the regular writer software until the disk is completely erased. (But it does read and copy correctly -so far).

[iStan]

XS4Xevr: this is probably stating the obvious, but I'm good at that- have you checked at work to make sure that the app is set to 'burn session' or 'allow multiple burns' or whatever you Windows folks call it, rather than 'burn disk'?

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/4011/mac2.gif

[XS4Xevr]

In XP at work, I just use "Windows Explorer" and click "Send To" after highlighting and right-clicking what I want to send to the "CD-RW Drive". It always allows (apparently by default) to add files and to keep adding files, spanning many days and weeks, until the CDR is filled up. When I merely try to add anything to a CDR or CD-RW that XP has already written to, even though there is plenty of available space, my regular software ("MY DVD") that I use at home on Windows 98SE displays a message like "Cannot write to CD Media" and just plain can't do it. But I can erase the whole disk on CD-RWs, but not able to write again until I erase it completely. The next day at work I can still add to it using XP. (98SE Explorer has no such "Send To" Option.)

So I suspect XP does or writes something to the disk that makes it is incompatible with other drives/software. I mention this because that might be the case of what happened with the LEXAR card too. A suspicion. (Or is that LEXAR drive supposed to be only a Reader and not a Writer? One would suspect XP had to have something to do with it. Think he can use XP to erase the card?)

[thatguyben]

Alright, I finally decided to try and get my picture on the net, but once i took a pic and tried to put it on the computer, nothing started.
When I first put the card in, it went straight to something that allowed me to choose what i do with the pictures, but after that, nothing, it even stopped recognizing it had the drive I put the card in.

Here's a list of what I got.
Windows XP
Nikon Coolpix 950
Lexar Media 32 mb Compact Flash High-Speed 4X card
Compact Flash Drive.
On the camera it says "THIS CARD CANNOT BE USED" and I now can't delete the pictures I took, which connects me to the card breaking making me even more in trouble with my parents.
Can anybody help me?

L_S- Is the Compact Flash drive in your computer?