XP won't recognise Canon PowerShot A570 IS digital camera
My Windows XP computer is not able to detect Canon PowerShot A570 camera. As per canon it is a kind of usb device. When you connect it, the internal memory is accessible in the form of usb drive in which you can directly copy paste data. But rightnow XP do not respond when I connect it. I checked in Device Manager also. There is a single device listed as unknown and I am sure it is the camera only. How to make this thing work in XP.
Re: XP won't recognise Canon PowerShot A570 IS digital camera
I had this exact same problem, with Windows XP SP3, recently updated through Windows Update; a Dell Inspiron; and two Canon Powershot Cameras, an A70 and an A550. I tried a lot of tactics, largely inneffectually: I turned off "Fast User Switching" and restarted, checked the registry for Still Image stuff, tried to install new drivers for the unknown USB device in Device Manager (I thought perhaps I could force it to use ptpusb.inf)... uninstalled the unknown device... reinstalled the software from the camera install CD... uninstalled all the Canon software using its "uninstall" scripts, and reinstalled it from the CD again... all to no avail. I even considered downloading a WIA driver and trying that approach, but in the end I didn't have to. The sequence I tried which seemed to work was, First - In System Properties (the system control panel) -> Hardware -> (Drivers) Driver Signing, I checked the "Ignore" box (to stop requiring Microsoft signed drivers), and also made it the system default
(Camera was still not recognized).
Second - Rebooted the computer (for about the 10th time!)
(Camera was still not recognized).
Third - tried the install CD, AGAIN. The process of installing the software looked the same as the first time (installing on top of software which was already there) but this time something did happen. Et voila, I could not believe my eyes when turning on the connected camera resulted in a Canon Powershot A70 icon appearing as if my magic in "My Computer". The new drive works fine and I can access my photos.