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Question posted by jaawhsno on July 6th, 2014

Dell Xps 8500 Sd Card Reader Will Light Up But Not Read Cards

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Answer #1: Posted by techyagent on July 6th, 2014 10:14 AM

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Does the disk show up on Disk Manager (right click on My Computer/Computer -> Manage -> Storage -> Disk Manager)? If the SD shows up, you may have to assign the drive a letter.

If it does show up in Disk Manager, right click on the disk and choose 'Change Drive Letter'. Hopefully it will show up in explorer.

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Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 2

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Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 7

... Optical Drive 67 Replacing the Optical Drive 69 Postrequisites 69 Secondary Optical-Drive 69 Prerequisites 69 Installing a Secondary Optical-Drive 70 Postrequisites 71 15 Media-Card Reader 73 Prerequisites 73 Removing the Media-Card Reader 74 Replacing the Media-Card Reader 75 Postrequisites 75 Contents 7

Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 13

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Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 17

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Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 19

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Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 23

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Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 27

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Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 31

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Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 35

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Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 37

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Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 43

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Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 49

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Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 53

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Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 57

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Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 61

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Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 67

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Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 73

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Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 74

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Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 75

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Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 115

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