When you have a compact flash (CF) 50 memory card that you use for images but don't have a CF memory slot on your computer, use the express card 34 slot and to make a CF 50 card slot. You will need to purchase an express card with memory card converting capabilities. These cards have a special insert that allow for the insertion of CF 50 memory cards and others.
Instructions
Laptop
1. Pull out the plastic cover from the express card slot on the laptop with your fingertips. This will be a slot on the side of the laptop. A small plastic tab may cover the slot; pull the tab out by pushing in the lever button that sits next to it.
2. Insert the express memory card converter in the slot opening on the laptop.
3. Insert the CD that came with the express card in the CD drive. Wait for the installation wizard on the CD to start automatically. Follow the on-screen prompts to install the express card drivers. Wait for the driver installation to complete.
4. Insert the CF 50 memory card into the small card slot on the express memory card converter. Wait for the memory card to be detected, then open the CF 50 folder.
5. Select the data you want to copy by simultaneously pressing "Ctrl" and "Alt" while clicking the files you want to copy. Right click on any of the selected files, then select "Copy" from the drop down menu. Navigate to the folder you want to save the data in, then right click in a blank area of the screen and click "Paste."
Desktop
6. Disconnect all the cables from the desktop and turn it so the back is facing you. Unfasten the screws from the right side panel and slide the pane back toward you and off the computer. Since desktops do not come with express card readers, you will need to install one.
7. Lay the computer down on its left side so the motherboard lays flat on a work surface. You don't need to move the motherboard but do need access to the drive bays that sit in front of it and opposite you. Remove the plastic cover from one of the small bays on the upper front of the computer. This can be under or above the CD device location.
8. Insert the express card reader slot adapter into one of the bays from the interior of the desktop computer. This creates an express card slot (it is not the express memory card converter). Empty bays are just under the CD device, next to the floppy, or above the hard drive (all located in the same general area.) Insert the express card reader slot adapter in one of these bays. Choose a slot where the express card reader slot adapter inserts to face the front of the computer, just as the CD tray in the CD device faces the front of the computer.
9. Screw the express card reader in place with the fasteners that came packaged with it. Replace the computer cover, and turn back to its original position. Reconnect the computer cables. Turn on the computer, and allow the express card reader slot adaptor to be detected automatically.
10. Insert the express card converter in the new express card reader slot you installed.
11. Insert the driver CD that came with the express card converter, and wait for the installation wizard to start. Click through the needed prompts to allow for its installation.
12. Insert the CF 50 memory card into the express card converter. Once the computer detects it, transfer the files you want to the computer by selecting them, right clicking and choosing "Copy." Open the folder you wish to save them to, right click in a blank space, then select "Paste" from the list of drop-down options.
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