Flash Drive problem

[MR ZenWiz]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Patton Echols <p.echols at comcast.net> wrote:
> I have been given a compact flash card with the request that I recover files
> from the card.  When a usb card reader is plugged, no reaction.  I've looked
> at the log viewer and there are no messages in any log when the card reader
> is plugged in w/o card (I think that is normal) and no messages in any log
> when the card is plugged in - pretty abnormal I think.
>
> I have tested the reader with another card.
>
> Any thoughts on getting a reaction from this card?
>
It could be shorted out, i.e. dead.

Do you have any device that uses a CF card you could plug it into and
then plug that device into the computer?  My son has a Canon digital
EOS whose flash cards don't read in my reader (which works on other
flash cards) but it works fine from inside the camera....