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[OM] E-1 woes... wise men input needed

Subject: [OM] E-1 woes... wise men input needed
From: "Johann Thorsson" <johann@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:45:38 -0700
I am having problems with my E-1, and am hoping some of you gurus know how to 
bring it back to its former behavior.

The problem is that I can not access the memory card as an external drive when 
I plug the body in using the USB cable.  I can se the camera in "My computer", 
but when I click on the link it just gives me "Please insert a disk into 
drive".  If I take the card out and plug it into an external card reader it 
just works fine.

I have tried this on another computer, and with another card, so it seems to be 
the E-1 which is to blame.

I think this started when I was going to check the firmware version.  I was 
following the instructions and using Olympus Viewer as supposed.  Or at least I 
was trying to, the instructions aren't exactly very clear.  So this is what I 
did:  
I plugged the camera in, and while connected I went into the E-1 menu and 
switched from "storage" to "PC".  I think this may have screwed the camera up, 
I have a bad feeling that I should have done this before plugging the camera 
in, but the instructions say nothing about this.  Then I tried to access the 
camera through the Help menu, as you are supposed to do, but only got a message 
saying that there was no camera to be found.  So the camera is in fact totally 
inaccessible from the computer.

Is there anyone who has experienced this?  Is there a magic way to "restore" 
the camera (other than restoring factory settings)?  I have not tried to 
restore the factory settings (I will loose all my customized settings), and I 
don't think reformatting the card will help as this happens with all cards I 
try it with.

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