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Windows 2003 and Canon Powershot S330


cre3d

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Not sure whats going on, but the camera drivers installed fine by running setup in windows xp compatibility mode; However, when trying to transfer images over to the hard drive, it gives an estimate of 80+ minutes and never actually transfers more than ~300kb of the first image file.

What could this be? All my other usb devices are functioning properly and I can't google anything on this so perhaps someone has had a similar experience? It pulls up the image list for the camera just fine.

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Welcome cre3d, enjoy the forum and ask many questions as we love a challenge......

Have you tried to transfer just one image at a time to see if you can get it to work at all? Is the battery at full charge on the S330? Have you tried a different USB port?

I have Nikon CoolPix 775 and what I do is use a card reader. Just pull the card from the camera and pop it into the reader. Now it acts like just like another drive and I can transfer files with ease. Card readers are not that costly and it also adds the flexibility of using the reader for other goodies. I also use the reader for my PDA card as well as storage. My reader is just a USB 1.1 but still at that it is pretty quick...

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Well, I have a Canon Powershot S110, and I solved the problem. Go me!

I've been fighting with this issue literally for months.

Quick recap: Windows Server 2003 would not work with my digital camera (Canon Powershot S110). I could see the pictures in preview, but when you went to copy them over, the first picture came over fine, then it hung on he second after 8%.

NOTHING i tried worked, even though the camera works flawlessly under XP.

Finally figured it out after reading a bunch of Microsoft whitepapers on WIA.

First, I'm no sure if it did anything, but I believe the service needs to run as Local System, not Local Service. That's done via right click -> Properties in services. No biggee.

Anyway, the thing that FINALLY got it to work was sti.dll.

First, delete sti.dll from /windows/system_32/dllcache.

get a copy of sti.dll from an XP Pro machine.

Copy it into /windows/system_32/

When 2003 bitches about loading a cd, click cancel, and agree to use the new file.

Restart the WIA service.

That did it for me.

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That's all with the WIA service enabled. The Windows Server 2003 WIA service uses a different sti.dll.

And if you read my post, you;d see where I said to restart the service

BTW, I just reformmated, so I can conform, the only changes needed to get it to work are to change WIA to run as local system and replace sti.dll

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  • 2 months later...

I completely forgot about this post, been too busy with things in real life and simply reverted to using another computer on my home network to download images with. However, I will now give this fix a try to see if it works!

PS- I am exhibiting the same exact problems Emkorial described...First picture goes through just fine and then it kinda freezes. Camera works fine in XP.

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Just finished applying the fix described and am now getting a new error: When trying to copy any pictures over to my hard drive, I get an "Access is denied" message. Thoughts?

I deleted sti.dll from my system32\dllcache, copied sti.dll from an xp pro machine to my system32 folder and restarted the WIA service (tried restarting computer as well). I can view the images just fine off the camera itself, however I cannot copy them to my hard drive.

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