SOny DCR HC30 Camcorder not recognized in vista

[jawa]

I am not able to download Sony DCR HC30 tape video into Sony VAIO laptop as the windows vista does not recognize the camcorder through firewire or USB. I tried through movie maker, picture motion browser, adobe premier etc. Can someone help as I have lot of tapes to be downloaded.

Jawa

[Graham Hughes]

When you connect the cam using the firewire cable do you get the ping and
found new hardware balloon?
If not I suspect a poor or faulty connection, check this page out and
beg/steal/borrow three working items - that you've seen working and test
your components
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Probl...notCapture.htm

[jawa]

Thanks for the help and the article is wonderful. I tried all the options discussed in the article. The device manager is not showing any problems and the driver is updated. But still the camcorder is not recognized. I am not getting the ping when I connect the device through firewire. Is there any special thing for vista to be looked into as the article deals with XP.

I baught Sony Vaio only for the reason of easily connecting to sony products. Anyway, please help me to solve the issue once again

Regards,
Jawa

[jawa]

Please help me as the issue remains unsolved. Looking forwrad for a good guidance

Regrds,
Jawahar

[b123]

Perhaps you need an iLink cable? I just purchased a 4 to 6 pin (and 4 to 4 pin for my laptop) on ebay for about $3 each from China (includes shipping).

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...8181019AApNIoW

(Even from Sony... Importing/Exporting movies from/to a tape by connecting the camcorder to the computer via i.LINK® cable.)

Also, here are Sony's drivers for the camera

http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/swu...pl?mdl=DCRHC30

maybe this usb driver works, or just for memory card downloads
http://esupport.sony.com/perl/swu-do...ES&mdl=DCRHC30