I think what you're experiencing is drive letter conflict - the drive letter assigned to the reader is the same as another device that you inserted into your system at one time. IE: usb jump drive, usb hard drive, etc. Your card reader is simply just a usb device. Hit me up with a PM that has your phone number and I can explain it to you on the phone. I'm a PC tech for a living so I've dealt with my fair share of stuff like this.

 

ever get this working?

 

Nope, tried a bunch more things but nothing is working. I am going to take the card to the local computer tech. I spoke with my brother and he told me to take it to this guy as he has had a similar issue before. My brother is a amature photographer and ran into 2 similar issues where the card got corrupt somehow and required a powerful program to pull the files out. He was able to have the card recognized as a drive though...