Canon Powerhot A530

Thank you for that bunch of information.I have been using windows 2000 Pro.I really wonder why it cannot detect my cam as another drive.I will try your advise.Thanks a lot.

Ahhh ... USB is not quite as automatic in Windows 2000 as it is in XP. There should be suitable drivers, all the same. In Windows 2000, once you have a USB driver installed, you should be able to plug a device in and it should show up. What you should not do, though, is just pull the cord to disconnect the device. You first have to click on the "Safely Remove Hardware" (little green arrow icon) in the System Tray by the clock. If you don't do that, Windows sometimes doesn't like it.

Windows 2000 was an excellent operating system. For a long time I saw no need to upgrade to XP but, unfortunately, it hasn't been supported for a while and so security updates finished. That shouldn't be a problem with your Canon, though. I can't remember the Explorer interface clearly now - you may not have the option in the left hand menu to Move or Copy files - but you can simply open two Explorer windows and drag and drop from one top the other. If you drag and drop with the RIGHT mouse button, you will get a little menu when you drop which allows you to select 'Move'. By default, if dragging from one drive to another, it will Copy files. You can also move files as follows:

select the files you want to move,
press Ctrl+X,
open the folder you want to copy them to,
right-click in an empty space and select Paste (or click in the folder and press Ctrl+V)

I have a feeling that Windows 2000 doesn't support USB 2.0 but that shouldn't be a problem since most USB 2.0 devices support USB 1.1. It's just slower.

For more information, try the Canon manual.

Canon drivers for Windows 2000 can be downloaded here: http://support-ph.canon-a... but I notice that the A530 isn't mentioned. Is this because the A530 wasn't marketed in Asia, I wonder? Hmmm ... Try this link:

http://software.canon-europe.com/products/0010332.asp

Twain drivers are always a pain, by the way. They have a habit of disappearing when you unplug the device and, in my experience, the only way to get them back is to have the device plugged in BEFORE starting Windows!

You gave some very good advice except for moving photos. I have been taught by several professional photographers to use the Ctrl+C (copy function)to move photos from the camera or memory card to your hard drive. The cut and paste method opens the door to deleting your photos if something happens during the transfer process. The copy and paste keeps the photos on the card until you are done transferring the photos. A friend used to do the cut and paste until one time he missed the "v" and hit the "c" key first and lost the photos.

The DOS command Move and the Windows equivalent (Cut and Paste) are perfectly safe. They always actually involve TWO sequential operations: first a COPY and then a DELETE, once the COPY command has completed (and has been checked for accuracy), so it is impossible to lose data, even if the power goes off unexpectedly in the middle of the operation. In that event, there may be one corrupted file but the file that is corrupted will ALWAYS still exist in its original form because if COPY is interrupted the operation doesn't complete and the original is not deleted.

The person who advised you was erring on the side of safety and either misunderstood what he had done or panicked. Ctrl+X is the Cut command. If you select another location and press Ctrl+C by mistake (instead of Ctrl+V) all that happens is that the Clipboard (which only contains the location of the files to be pasted - not the data itself) is refreshed with blank information. If your friend lost data (files), it is because he did something else in a panic. In my 20 years as an IT Support person I have never known files to be lost in this way (and I have always been able to restore them, even if they were really 'deleted', so long as the person had done nothing else subsequently.

The command 'move' (represented in Windows by 'Cut' or Ctrl+X followed by 'Paste' or Ctrl+V and the equivalent operations on the Mac) is one of the most basic of commands in any operating system and has ALWAYS involved a COPY followed by a DELETE. Security of data has always been a priority in any operating system and nothing is ever actually deleted before the copy has been verified when that command is issued. The only time it can ever go wrong is when a removable storage device is disconnected while the operating system is updating the file allocation table. If this happens, all data on the removable drive can become inaccessible but it is NOT deleted: it can usually be recovered completely with the right tools unless the user panics and reformats the drive. Even after a reformat, it is often possible to recover data.

Thanks a lot for that site sir.I will look at it a while when not busy.I have a problem copying from my camera files since it does not appear as a drive on my allocated F:drive.But when using a card reader, I can get my files on my memory card.But using the USB, and the Twain driver, Windows will pop up the files in the Imaging and require me what files to acquire.The files are still in a small thumbnails in Imaging waiting to be acquired and they are all in jpeg form, no video files seen.I can also acquire the image using Adobe Photoshop, all jpeg forms too.As I am going to acquire it 1 by 1.But if I use my card reader, the files are all visible in F:drive in 1 folder.
I think I'm gonna read the sites you have given to know more about the drivers.I think it depends upon the driver that I am using.
Thanks a lot.

I did not know it was not marketed in Asia?Let me check the site you gave.This camera came from Europe.But I can see it was made in Thailand.So how come they do not market it in Asia?I wonder too.

My connection is fine because my pc can detect it but it requires me a driver for canon.I used twain 6.6 but i cannot see the video files on my camera only the jpeg is being transferred and take note, i need to acquire it one by one using photoshop because it is not detected as a driver.