Assign a drive letter to digital camera?


  1. Posts : 14
    Windows 7 Enterprise x64
       #1

    Assign a drive letter to digital camera?


    Hello !
    Is it possible to asign a drive letter to a "digital camera"?

    I can't find the option, and can't find any solution on the web
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  2. Posts : 3,187
    Main - Windows 7 Pro SP1 64-Bit; 2nd - Windows Server 2008 R2
       #2

    What brand and model number is the camera?

    My little mp3 player has two different settings for the type of connection, MSC and MTP modes. With one I get the drive letter; with the other one I don't. Essentially it switches the device from using merely a transfer protocol to using a storage protocol.

    Of interest:

    USB mass-storage device class

    Particularly see the part at the bottom under "See also":

    Picture Transfer Protocol

    I bet if you figure out which mode your camera is in now and switch it to the other one it will work.
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  3. Posts : 14
    Windows 7 Enterprise x64
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Well actually it's an iPhone, but windows recognizes it as camera, so every time I add a file, it warns me I might not be able to use it.
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  4. Posts : 3,187
    Main - Windows 7 Pro SP1 64-Bit; 2nd - Windows Server 2008 R2
       #4

    See if this works:

    iPhone Explorer - A USB iPhone browser for Mac and PC

    Not having an iPhone I can't try it myself.

    They claim it "Allows you to use your iPhone as a flash drive / pen drive or put your iPhone into disk mode".
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  5. Posts : 14
    Windows 7 Enterprise x64
    Thread Starter
       #5

    It really does allow that, but what I need is a drive letter because it's the only way to associate it with other programs.
    if it doesn't have a drive letter windows just recognize it as a camera
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  6. Posts : 3,427
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #6

    I don't have an Iphone so this might not be relevant.

    However, my phone has 2 modes,for connecting to a PC

    "Software mode"
    and "Mass storage mode"

    Does the Iphone have the same? Mass Storage allows the PC to see it as a Mass Storage Device (Like a SD Card) and gives it a letter. With Software mode only the Phones software can see it.

    Obviously if it doesn't help then pretend I was never here
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  7. Posts : 14
    Windows 7 Enterprise x64
    Thread Starter
       #7

    Thanks for the advice, but unfortunately iPhone doesn't allow me to use it as a mass storage device.
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  8. Posts : 3,187
    Main - Windows 7 Pro SP1 64-Bit; 2nd - Windows Server 2008 R2
       #8

    profdlp said:
    ...They claim it "Allows you to use your iPhone as a flash drive / pen drive or put your iPhone into disk mode".
    DoShpiN said:
    It really does allow that, but what I need is a drive letter because it's the only way to associate it with other programs.
    if it doesn't have a drive letter windows just recognize it as a camera
    Did you try it? (As I said before, I can't.)

    I would think that "disk mode" would give you a drive letter. :)
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  9. Posts : 14
    Windows 7 Enterprise x64
    Thread Starter
       #9

    I tried, it lets me browse the iPhone's files using the "Explorer" but doesn't assign a letter
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  10. Posts : 8,608
    Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit SP1
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