Situation fixed (sort of) To answer your questions. New Maxtor HD 60GB left in first partition, 80GB left in second partition. I am running as administrator. I am talking about play mode through the LCD screen on the back of the camera. When the USB cable is plugged in and camera turned on the computer opens the smartcard on the desktop like it was another hard drive. Thumbnails show up for all images there too including #16. I turned off everything and turned it back on. I was able to pull all the images off starting with the last and working backwards. When I got to #16 I got the error again. After that point I could not copy any of the images to another folder even if they worked before. Turning things off and restarting fixes everything until I try #16 again. I can live with loosing that one, just not it and the 40+ after it. In a couple of hours I'm ready to try deleting the others from the camera to see if this frees #16. Thanks,