That is a pretty drastic thing to do just for a card reader. Partition, reinstall XP and run the laptop as a Windows machine for Them works, so I'm thinking my best option is to delete the OS-X I don't want to keep buying card readers in the hope that one of I take it you are aware that the reader won't actually mount until the card is inserted? This happens in my case anyway and then it mounts as a drive titled, EOS (have a 350D) once the CF is in it.
Ok, just tried this myself with a cheap 'Gigatech' reader. Unfortunately none of the methods suggested helped OS-X toĬonsistently detect either of my card readers.
